Ari Burnu Cemetery, Anzac Gallipoli

For many years this was the site of the annual Dawn Service on Anzac Day, but increasing numbers of visitors resulted in damage to the grave markers and garden. From the year 2000 onwards, services have been held at the Anzac Commemorative Site on North Beach, near where many of the Anzacs first struggled ashore on 26 April 1915. Photo above by CWGC. Photo right by Eric Goossens.



Above. Original grave marker and the current headstone of 1277 Gunner B Lyall AFA KIA 1 Dec 1915

Visiting Information:	Wheelchair access to this cemetery possible via main entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on telephone number 01628 507200.
Location Information:	Ari Burnu Cemetery lies between the beach and the cliff under Plugge's Plateau, about 1 kilometre north-north-west of Lone Pine Cemetery and Memorial.
Historical Information:	The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. Ari Burnu Cemetery, named from the Cape at the North end of Anzac Cove, was made in 1915. In 1926 and 1927, graves were brought into it from Kilid Bahr Anglo-French Cemetery and Gallipoli Consular Cemetery. There are now 252 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 42 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate five casualties believed to be buried among them. Other memorials record the names of three Indian soldiers who were buried at Kilid Bahr.
No. of Identified Casualties:	211