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The Graveyards of Gallipoli; A Digger History Associate Site |
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A Tribute to the Men of all the Nations that took part in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 |
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Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Cape Helles, Gallipoli |
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Cape Helles, Gallipoli. 1915. Lancashsire Landing Cemetery, an Allied military cemetery. The cemetery is one kilometre west of Sedd el Bahr. At left is the grave of 48546 Gunner Frederick Hugh Joynson, 90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, who died Saturday 7 August 1915 (aged 26). |
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Lancashire Landing Cemetery. It is located about 500m inland of W Beach on the eastern slopes of Hill 114 west of the Helles Memorial. W Beach was defended by approximately 90 Turks in well sited trenches. By the evening of the first night over half of the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers (533 men) were casualties and six Victoria Crosses were awarded. The cemetery contains 1,253 (27 Australian) graves, 97 of which were relocated here from the Aegean Islands after the Armistice. Most of the Australians were Victorians of the 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions, casualties of the second battle of Krithia on 8 May. The Zion Mule Corps, reputedly the first Jewish martial unit raised in two thousand years, is also represented. There is one Victoria Cross winner here. |
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Lieutenant Colonel H M Welstead, Lancashire Fusiliers |
Major R W Wells, 6 Bn AIF |
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1809 Lance Serjeant W S Kenealy VC Lancashire Fusiliers |
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Lieutenant Colonel J A Fallows, Lancashire Fusiliers. |
| Location Information: | The Cemetery is 1 kilometre west of Sedd el Bahr village. It stands on a small ridge named Karaja Oghul Tepe, 110 metres above the sea and overlooking "W" Beach. |
| 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.
At Helles, the 29th Division landed troops at 'S,' 'V,' 'W,' 'X' and 'Y' Beaches, five small coves at or near the southern end of the peninsula. The landing at 'Y' Beach (Gurkha Bluffs) was carried out by the 1st King's Own Scottish Borderers and the Plymouth Battalion of the Royal Naval Division, but these troops were forced to re-embark on the following day. The 2nd Royal Fusiliers landed at 'X' Beach, followed by the rest of the 87th Brigade. Under very severe fire, the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers landed on 'W' Beach and cut their way through wire entanglements and trenches to the edge of the cliff. They and the other battalions of the 88th Brigade established themselves on the hills of Tekke Burnu and Helles Burnu. The beach became known as Lancashire Landing. The greater part of the cemetery (Rows A to J and part of Row L) was made between the landing in April 1915 and the evacuation of the peninsula in January 1916. Row I contains the graves of over 80 men of the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers who died in the first two days following the landing. The 97 graves in Row K and graves 31 to 83 in Row L were brought from islands of the Aegean after the Armistice. There are now 1,236 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 135 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate ten casualties who are known to be buried among them. The cemetery also contains 17 Greek war graves. |
| No. of Identified Casualties: | 1,113 (includes Foreign and Non-World War graves in CWGC care) |
