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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.
On 6 August, further landings were
made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came
in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three
fronts. No 1 and 2 Outposts were made by Nelson Company of the
Canterbury Infantry Battalion on 30 April, for the burial of some of
those killed when the 7th and 12th Australian Infantry Battalions landed
nearby on 25 April. No 2 Post was the scene of heavy fighting at the end
of May and it was one of the starting points for the Battle of Sari
Bair.
It contained the best well in Anzac
and the 16th Casualty Clearing Station and the New Zealand Dental Corps
clinic were established close by. No 2 Outpost Cemetery was made during
the occupation and in it, 152 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World
War are buried or commemorated. 66 of the burials are unidentified and
special memorials commemorate 48 casualties known or believed to be
buried among them.
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