Cemeteries & Memorials at Helles

	Cemetery Index/links Helles (Turkish)
V Beach Cemetery. (20 Identified, 480 unidentified, 196 special memorials) was started the day after the disastrous landing at the well fortified beach and was used until May 1915 although some graves were bought in after the Armistice.
Seddel Bahr Military Grave is the only isolated grave on Gallipoli. On the morning of April 26 Lieutenant Colonel Doughty-Wylie and Captain Walford led the survivors of the V Beach Landing to the village and fort of Seddel Bahr (Sedd el Bahir). Both won the Victoria Cross but were killed in the fight. Captain Walford lies in V Beach Cemetery, Lt Col Doughty-Wylie where he fell.
Helles Memorial. It stands on the tip of the peninsular. It is the Battle Memorial for the entire Gallipoli Campaign and the place of commemoration for the Australians who died at Helles and the British and Indian servicemen who died in the campaign and have no known grave. It bears 21,000 names.

12 Tree Copse Cemetery (477 identified, 2,226 unidentified, 657 special memorials) was made after the Armistice when graves were bought in from surrounding areas. It also contains the 12 Tree Copse (New Zealand) Memorial which recognise 180 New Zealanders who have no known grave.

Redoubt Cemetery (285 identified, 1,393 unidentified, 349 special memorials). This cemetery was started by the Australians in May 1915 and was used until the evacuation. It takes it's name from the line of forts the Turks built across the southern end of the peninsular in the fighting for Krithia and the Redoubt Line on which the advance halted in May.

Skew Bridge Cemetery (126 identified, 351 unidentified, 130 special memorials). It was named for a wooden "skew" bridge carrying the Krithia road across the Dere river, just behind the centre of the line occupied by the Allies on 27th April 1915. It was started during the fighting of 6-8 May and was used throughout the occupation. At the Armistice it contained only 53 graves but was greatly enlarged when burials were bought in from the battle fields and small burial grounds nearby.

Lancashire Landing Cemetery (1,091 identified, 135 unidentified, 10 special memorials). This is named after the area of W Beach on which the first Lancashire Fusiliers landed under severe fire and cut their way through wire entanglements and trenches to the edge of the cliff. Most of the cemetery was created during the occupation. Row 1 contains the graves of 80 men from the Lancashire Fusiliers who died in the first 2 days after the landing. Further graves were bought in from some of the Aegean Islands, after the Armistice.

Pink Farm Cemetery (352 identified, 250 unidentified, 219 special memorials). By 13 July the advance at Helles was effectively over and the position remained unchanged until the evacuation in January 1916. Pink Farm (properly Sotiri Farm) took its name from the red soil of the area. The three cemeteries which grew up around the farm were combined after the Armistice on the site of Pink Farm Cemetery No 3, and this cemetery was further enlarged when graves were brought in from other small burial grounds in the vicinity.