Favorites - Ruins & Memorials<br> Turkey 2008

Anzac Cove Loop - Gelibolu (Gallipoli Peninsula): A closer look at the grave marker of an Anzac troop. Although there are names etched on most of the markers at the cemetery, many of them carry a caveat reminding visitors that the ID is by no means certain.

Anzac Cove Loop - Gelibolu (Gallipoli Peninsula): Mehmetçiğe Saygı Anıtı (Respect for Mehmetçik Monument) on the Anzac Cove Loop features a Turkish soldier (Mehmetçik is a nickname associated with all Turkish soldiers) carrying a Johnnie. The inspiration for the monument came from a speech given by the (then) Australian Governor General Lord Richard Casey, when he visited Çanakkale in 1967. Casey, who served at Gallipoli as a lieutenant, told of how in the heat of the battle, a Turkish soldier carried a wounded British soldier from his trench over to the Allied trench only meters away and, leaving him with his comrades, returned to his own lines.A closer look at the figure of Mehmetçik carrying a wounded Johnnie.

Anzac Cove Loop - Gelibolu (Gallipoli Peninsula): Mom reading the grave markers at Lone Pine Cemetery. It is said that on 25 April 1915 a single pine tree stood near the area of the memorial. Within days, the tree had been shot away, but not before it gave its name to the area. Lone Pine is mentioned in Australia’s national story as the site of one of the bloodiest and hardest fought actions of the campaign – the Battle of Lone Pine.