This is the name given to the creek located to the south of MacLagan’s Ridge extending from the Hell Spit toward Plugge’s Pleateau. It was marked as “Great Creek” on Turkish maps. At every opportunity, Turkish artillery positioned on the eastern slope of Kabatepe during the Dardanelles Campaign land operations blanketed the region where the Great Creek flowed into the sea and the valley entrance with artillery fire. The region was called “Shrapnel Valley” by the Anzac troops due to Turkish artillery shells that exploded at a certain altitude and further dispersed as shrapnel. The cemetery reached its current condition after construction by the British between 1919 and 1923. In total, there were 683 soldiers buried here during the battles: 28 British, 527 Australians and 56 New Zealanders. Additionally, 72 unknown soldiers were interred here during the battles.

Colonel John Monash, Headquarters, 4th Australian Infantry Brigade, NZ&A Division, AIF 
“We have been amusing ourselves by trying to discover the longest period of absolute quiet. We have been fighting now continuously for 22 days, all day and all night, and most of us think that absolutely the longest period during which absolutely no sound of gun or rifle fire, throughout the whole of that time, was 10 seconds. One man says he was able on one occasion to count 14, but nobody believes him!”