Various important memorials at Gallipoli

TURKISH MEMORIAL: This Memorial has been erected to the memory of all Turkish martyrs. It is on the Toe of Gallipoli Peninsula just at the entrance of strait. The Tomb-Stone of this Memorial bears this inscription .

"YE SOLDIER WHO FELL FOR THIS EARTH

MAY THE ANCESTORS DESCEND AND KISS THAT NOBLE BROW

OH WHO WILL DIG THE GRAVE FIT FOR THEE

FOR THE BURIAL HISTORY ITSELF TO NARROW".

MEHMET AKIF

Dur Yolcu from the water.

THE DARDANELLES AND TURKISH MEMORIAL: In Gallipoli Campaign Turkish losses were about 280.000. Inscriptions on the slope are from a Turkish poem titled STOP 0 PASSER BY, and only four lines.

THIS EARTH YOU THUS TREAD UNAWARES

IS WHERE AN AGE SANK

BOW AND LISTEN THIS QUIET MOUND

IS WHERE THE HEART OF A NATION THROBS

Necmettin Halil ONAN

LONE PINE CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL: The position at Lone Pine bad been captured on the day of the landing at ANZAC COVE, it was later lost. On August 6 the 1st Australian Brigade emerging from a long sap which had been dug under No-Man's Land stormed. The Turkish trenches and captured the position after five days and nights of fierce fighting during which the Australians won seven Victoria Crosses in a single day. The cemetery derives its name from a single pine tree which until the first day of the assault had been left standing alone by The Turks who had cut down all the others for firewood. A single pine tree has been planted in its place (On the left) and symbolizing the old one.

NEW ZEALAND MEMORIAL AT CHUNUK·BAIR : The hill known as Chunuk-Bair was one of the main objectives in the battle of Sari Bair which was fought from 6 to 10 August 1915. Much earlier on the day of the landing of Anzac Cove on 25 April, a party of the Australians scaled the height of Chunuk Bair But the arrival of Mustafa Kemal ATATURK at that moment frustrated any further advance.

It seems possible that ATATURK's astonishing career as a commanding General dates from this moment, for he saw what neither Liman Von Sanders nor anybody else had seen that Chunuk Bair and Sari Bair ridge had become the key to the whole. southern half of the peninsula.

One of the orders of ATATURK was worded here at Chunuk Bair ." I don't order you to attack I order you to die. In the time which passes until we die, other troops and commanders can take our places."

Alan Moorehead - Gallipoli