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 Kanlisirt Memorial: The Turkish Memorial at Lone Pine, Gallipoli Turkey

Kanlısırt Kitabesi

No A-6

Lower images: Eric Goossens

Photo - see caption below

To 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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Graveyards of Gallipoli:  a Tribute to the Men of all the Nations that took part in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915