Chanak Consular Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsular, Turkey

Chanak Consular Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsular, Turkey
	There are members of the Australian Light Horse and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles buried here but they were not battle deaths. They were from the Units sent to Gallipoli after the Armistice.

Cemetery:	CHANAK CONSULAR CEMETERY
Country:	Turkey
Locality:	unspecified
Visiting Information:	Wheelchair access possible via main entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our enquiries department on telephone number 01628 634221.
Location Information:	Chanak Consular Cemetery is 2 kilometres east of the ferry terminal, near to the town stadium. The cemetery is kept locked and visitors should ask at the Commission's office in Canakkale for the key.
Historical Information:	The Consular Cemetery was used for three Naval burials in April 1915 and between 1918 and 1920, it was used again by No 84 Field Ambulance, No 28 Casualty Clearing Station and No 49 Stationary Hospital which were stationed at Chanak. Later, two burials of September 1915 were brought in from Rodosto Catholic Cemetery, on the Sea of Marmara. During the Second World War, Turkey retained her neutrality and those Commonwealth servicemen buried there were mainly men taken prisoner during operations in the Aegean, who died while attempting to escape from camps where they awaited transport to Germany and Italy, and whose bodies were washed up on the Turkish coast. The cemetery now contains 38 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and one from the Second. The Commission also cares for seven war graves of other nationalities and a number of non war graves in the cemetery.
No. of Identified Casualties:	91