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Hill 60 Cemetery and New Zealand Memorial

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This cemetery is located approximately 500 m from the signboard on the right of the road to the Village of Southern Anafarta. The cemetery named “Hill 60” by the British (Bomba Tepe or Bomb Hill by the Turks) and located precisely at the southwest of the peak of Hill 60, was built over the British trenches. The last great battle of the Land Operations of the Dardanelles Campaign of August 27, 1915 took place here; this is the reason why this combat is referred to as Bomba Tepe (Hill 60 or Bomb Hill in Turkish) or the Kaiajik Aghala Battle by Turkish sources. The graves of the majority of the soldiers who were killed at the Hill 60 battles are unknown. The names of the Australians who died here are recorded at the Lone Pine Memorial.

The memorial is an obelisk with a height of 6.7 m situated on a square-shaped stone platform that is 8.5 m wide. The names of 182 New Zealand soldiers are inscribed on the memorial. The circle-shaped cemetery is 42.68 m in diameter and covers an area of 1,663 m². The cemetery was enlarged by the addition of 42 nearby graves after 1919. There are 754 soldiers buried at the cemetery, 42 of whom are identified, while the others remain unknown.