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Skew Bridge Cemetery

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This cemetery is located on the left side of the road to the coast, 2.5 km after the Redoubt Cemetery. The Skew Bridge stands for the wooden bridge on the Kanlı Dere (Bloody Stream) built during the battles. There are 606 names inscribed in the cemetery. The remains of 249 British soldiers, 9 Australians and 1 Indian are interred here. The remains of 345 soldiers could not be identified.

The British surveyed the battlefield for soldiers not interred in the Gallipoli Peninsula after the Armistice of Mudros in 1918. While Britain had over 36,000 dead during the battle, it then had 22,000 dead soldiers interred in 31 war graves. However, only 9,000 of these could be identified. The remains of 14,000 soldiers could not be located. These soldiers were interred in the Cape Helles, Twelve Tree Copse, Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair (New Zealanders) memorials, located on the peninsula. The small graves were unified after 1919

Message of General Hamilton to Lord Kitchener during Landing at Cape Helles  
“He gives twice who gives quickly. An accurate proverb! Now a new soldier in the Gallipoli Peninsula is worth five ships in the Mediterranean or more valuable than 50 soldiers killing time at the central troops in London. I know that everyone in his own department attentively calculates the numbers and thinks that 60.000 infantry men would be enough to destroy the Ottoman Empire. Yet they do not know the reality!”