Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Private Reginald Healy was officially reported as killed in action on the 2 May 1915 by a court of enquiry held in January 1916, although indications in his service file were that he had been missing from the day of the landing, 25 April 1915 . In 1922 his remains were discovered by the Graves Exhumation parties and he was given a headstone in the Baby 700 Cemetery. His identity disc was sent to his eldest brother during July 1922.

In July 1920 a newspaper report announced -‘the curious discovery’ of a cemetery constructed by the Turks during the earliest days on Gallipoli.

‘It consisted of wholly unsuspected graves of Anzacs and a few British Navy men. The cemetery is 300 yards to the east of Lone Pine and overlooks Legge’s Valley. It was first located during Captain CEW Bean’s last Gallipoli tour, and hitherto had been regarded as purely a Turkish cemetery, as it was far beyond the Anzac lines.

The cemetery contains 50 bodies of the Anzac’s bravest men, who evidently participated in the most forward fighting immediately after the landing. The discs found in the graves enabled identification to be made in almost every case, and the discovery shows the fate of men who were hitherto regarded as missing’.