ANZAC GRAVES
MEMORIAL ON GALLIPOLI
THE GRAVES AND THE HEADSTONES
Tlio Minister of Befonco lias rcccired detailed plans of the memorial to tho Anznue (Australians and New Zcnlanderg) who fell on Gallipoli. It is to bo erected at Lone Pine; the scene oftwhat was the mow determined aijd bloodiest, fight on tho whole Peninsula. The Australians attacked a series of strongly fortified trenches, and found ivhen they reached them that the Turks wero protected by folid head cover. There Trere a thousand dead AtKf'alians and Turks in that very limited l 'trcnch area after tho light was won by tho brave Australians, and no fewer than seven Victoria Crosses wero awarded for deeds of gallantry in that ono fight.
In connection wi'lh the memorial there is to bp a small chapel, marble pnvod, and a record room. Cyprus and olive trees are to bo planted about it. The cost of the memorial will be included in tho cost of the cemeterios that are now established in various parts of llhe Anzac area.
Plans of these cemeteries have also reached Sir Hoaton Rhodes, and an examination of them leads to the conclusion that the work has been well done. It is understood that the concern,ration of the bodies in tho Anzac area agreed to by the Imperial Graves Commission has been completed, and the report of Sir John Burnet, U.S.A., states that there aro 110 -longer any isohuM Braves. There are in all twenty-fonr cemeterie?. The smallest of these are known as Plume's Plateau and the Canterbury cemeteries. The former) contain nearly all, and the latter nil New Zealand graves. The largest cemetery is that known as Chunuk Bair. combining 260 graves, nearly all of which aro the Braves of New Zealanders. It is apparently on Rhododendron Spur, near the Apex, which is just under Chunuk Bair, and overlooks "Tho Farm," a little plateau on the hillside where there wero many English and Ghitrka dead, who lay there unlmried in a sort of No-man's Land after the Suvla landing. There is also a cemetery at the Farm.
o*-ht>r cemeteries are dotted nlxnit the lighting area and the beaches of Anzac. Tenders nro to be nailed for the headstones and the work entailed in their erection, aud'also for the Anzac-Memorial at Lone Pine. The lenders, which will close in February, are to he called for in London. Egypt, Constantinople, and l Athens. lii is hoped that the work will be started in the spring of "next year. The road construction preliminary to the work is now in hand. It is being: dohe by local labour. In the cemeteries there are to be "stone? of remembrance." One of the plans shows an inscription for theso: "Their Name Liveth for, Ever."
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 68, 14 December 1920, Page 8
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457ANZAC GRAVES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 68, 14 December 1920, Page 8
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