Hampton RSL Gallipoli Memorial Gardens

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Location 25 Holyrood Street, Hampton, Bayside - Victoria, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The names of all 91 Diggers are etched on steel plaques affixed atop ten rocks, representing the cemeteries at Gallipoli where they are buried. The rocks are in a V continuum simulating the elevation of cemeteries that rise from the shores of Anzac Cove up to the highest peak at Lone Pine.

On the wall of the Sub Branch are two bookend quotes from Sir John Monash and Ataturk, providing an overarching conciliatory message of peace and friendship.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened 16 April 2021 by Ms Nina Taylor MP and Turkish Consul-General Mr Eser Torum
Inscription

SIR JOHN MONASH WROTE
“… I am almost frightened to contemplate the howl of
rage and disappointment there will be when the men
find out what is afoot [i.e. the Evacuation]. I am
wondering what Australia will think at the desertion of
her 6,000 dead ...”
Sir John Monash, 12 December 1915

ATATURK’S WORDS
Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives.
You are now living in the soil of a friendly country,
therefore rest in peace.
There is no difference between the Johnnies and the
Mehmets to us where they lie side by side, here in this
country of ours.
You, the mothers, who sent their sons from faraway
countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying
in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their
lives on this land, they have become our sons as well.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1934

BEACH CEMETERY
(Names)

No 2 OUTPOST CEMETERY
(Names)

SHRAPNEL VALLEY CEMETERY
(Names)

CHATBY MILITARY CEMETERY
(Name)

EAST MUDROS MILITARY CEMETERY
(Names)

PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY
(Name)

CAPE HELLES MEMORIAL
(Names)

LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY
(Name)

SHELL GREEN CEMETERY
(Names)

4th BATTALION PARADE GROUND CEMETERY
(Name)

LONE PINE CEMETERY
(Names)

QUINN'S POST CEMETERY
(Names)

BABY 700 CEMETERY
(Name)

CHUNUK BAIR MEMORIAL
(Name)

LONE PINE MEMORIAL - 1
(Names)

LONE PINE MEMORIAL - 2
(Names)

LONE PINE MEMORIAL - 3
(Names)

LONE PINE MEMORIAL - 4
(Names)

LONE PINE MEMORIAL - 5
(Names)

Lives Lost at Gallipoli -
May They All Rest in
Peace
Australians: 8,709
British: 28,000
French: 10,000
New Zealanders: 2.701
Turks: 86,000

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

WELLS, Cecil Frederick John

Service number 1450
Private
7th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Aug 1891

DUNKLEY, Arthur Henry

Service number 654
Lance Corporal
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born Jun 1871

DONALD, Vivian De Burgh

Service number 736
Lance Corporal
5th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1880

ARTHUR, Charles Edmund Perriam

Service number 995
Sergeant
5th Australian Field Artillery Battery
AIF WW1
Born 1895

CLEMENT, David Purdie

Service number 1579
Private
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1893

CONNELLY, Clive Emerson

Service number OFFICER
Captain
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 29 May 1885

WATERS, Leslie John

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
15th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

ANNEAR, Paul Dalton

Service number 1314
Private
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

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