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Lala Baba Cemetery

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This cemetery is located on a hillock at Suvla Cove, called Lala Baba by the British. The cemetery can be accessed via a long earthen road. The construction of the cemetery, named after this hill, was initiated in 1919 and was created by the merger of 9 individual graves of British soldiers who died at the southern region of the operation of the IX British Army Corps.  

The rectangular-shaped cemetery measures 39 by 31 m and covers an area of 717 m². A white cross is situated on the wall right across from the entrance. The following is inscribed on a stone column to the right of the gate. Suvla 1915. Near this spot the IX Army landed on the night of 6th 7th August 1915.

Three parcels of land in the cemetery accommodate the remains of 216 British soldiers, as well as the records of 163.