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the Turks, Lone Pine at Anzac was Kanlisirt, "Bloody Ridge".
Turkish losses in the fighting around this spot were high and today the
Turkish defence of the area is remembered on a large concrete monolith
situated beside the road leading up from the coast from Kaba Tepe to
Lone Pine and on to Conkbayiri (Chunuk Bair).
On its face, in Turkish,
the Kanlisirt Aniti (Kanlisirt Memorial) has this text:
(translation below: image of Turkish
translation at bottom of page).
"In order to help the British 9th Army Corps landing
at Anarfarta District [Suvla Bay] on 6-7August 1915, the Anzac force
attacked the Turkish 19th and 16th Divisions, who were defending the
Ari Burnu front, to hold them there. The units of the 16th Division,
in spite of their heavy losses of 1,520 martyrs and 4,750 wounded
during the extremely violent fights, heroically defended Kanlisirt".
(Translated from the original Turkish)
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