The history of the Galipoli campaign
The battlefields and cemeteries today
a ) Anzac Cove and the beach areas
b ) The Anzac front line and the heights
c ) The Helles area
d ) The Suvla area
Anzac units on Galipoli
Casualties
Travel advice and information

 


 The New Zealand National Memorial dominates the peak of Chunuk Ball with its massive stone pylon. It is dedicated to the New Zealand soldiers who served on Gallipoli and bears the epigraph: "From the uttermost ends of the earth." Anzac Day ceremonies generally conclude with a New Zealand ceremony on this highest point of the Allied advance.

 Alongside the New Zealand Memorial is a bronze sculpture of Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Kemal (Conkbayiri Atataturk Memorial); the statue commemorates his remarkable escape from injury when his pocket watch stopped a piece of shrapnel as he was leading the counter attack on 10 August. With his determined holding of the Allied advance and the later recapture of Chunuk Bair, Mustafa Kemal proved himself one of the most outstanding commanders of the Gallipoli campaign.

 Below the summit about 20 metres to the east is the New Zealand Chunuk Bair Memorial, a low stone wall on which are recorded the names of 856 New Zealand soldiers who died in the August offensive and afterwards, and whose names are not recorded on any other memorials. Opposite the wall is the Chunuk Bair Cemetery which contains the remains of British, New Zealand and Gurkha dead who were buried here by Turkish soldiers after they drove the Allies from Chunuk Ball. There are 620 unidentified soldiers buried on the slopes of the cemetery and only 10 identified graves.

 On the southern slopes of Chunuk Bair there are some reconstructed trenches following the New Zealand and Turkish lines of August 1915. On a cleared area nearby is the Turkish Conkbayiri Mehmetcik Memorial, dedicated to the Turkish soldiers who lost their lives defending Chunuk Bair. The memorial is in the form of five stone monoliths symbolising the fingers of a hand upturned to God. They are inscribed with an account of the battles for Chunuk Bair.

 The Farm Cemetery is located on a small plateau below and to the northwest of Chunuk Bair. It can be reached by a steep walking track (15 minutes) down Rhododendron Ridge, which starts between the Conkbayiri Mehmetcik Memorial and the New Zealand National Memorial. The cemetery is on the site of the farm briefly held by British soldiers in their assault on Chunuk Bair on 9 August. When Turkish forces overran their position on 10 August the British lost about 1,000 men killed. The cemetery contains the remains of over 600 unknown soldiers.

 

 
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