The monoliths are situated on the right on the Kabatepe-Chunuk Bair road and on the east edge of Plateau 400. The region was captured by the ANZAC Corps during the landing of April 25, 1915. The region was retaken by the counter-attack of the 27th Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Şefik Aker. Plateau 400 was one of the critical positions where Turkish forces suffered the heaviest losses in the shortest period of time during the assault of the Turkish troops at 3:30 a.m. on May 18/19. The two warring sides agreed to a one-day ceasefire after the assault on May 24, which had resulted in the loss of almost 10,000 soldiers. The bodies of the Turkish martyrs left amidst the trenches were interred during the truce.  

Since the assault against Plateau 400 on August 6, 1915 occurred inside the tunnels under extremely severe and heavy bombardment, the Turkish trenches covered by protection planks faced incredibly heavy losses. The trenches of Plateau 400 were lost during this assault. The main goal of the Plateau 400 assault was to gain access to Chunuk Bair. The battles of August 6-7, 1915 are described on this monolith: In order to help the British 9th Army Corps landing at Anarfarta district [Suvla Bay] on 6-7August 1915, the Anzac force attacked the Turkish 19th and 16th Divisions, who were defending the Arıburnu front, to hold them there. The units of the 16th Division, in spite of their heavy losses of 1520 martyrs and 4750 wounded during the extremely violent fights, heroically defended Kanlısırt (Plateau 400). The Turkish memorial at Lone Pine and the memorial erected in 1916 in memory of the 16th Division were destroyed during the period of armistice.

Excerpt from the Lone Pine Diary of Mehmed Fasih Bey  
“…The carnage it caused is awful. Six dead lie there. Dismembered, parts of their bodies are intermingled. Blood has drained out of bodies, and chests and arms look like wax. Shins and legs, seared by the explosion, are purple. Some bones have been stripped of flesh. The men’s features are unrecognizable. Pitch black…… The medical aid men pick up scattered body parts....Friends on his side. They are trying to carry the dead; alas in vain! No way. Machine gun stand was broken. The arms chest and slides are covered with human flesh. Everything is in mud... The underwear of the poor martyrs may be seen even in the notches of the rifles...Çamurlar.”  

British Lieutenant General William R. Birdwood 
“ I saw to my sorrow that we lost around 2 thousand men in these battles...Yet, Turks say that the 16th Turkish Division lost 6930 men; 5 thousand of which died in a small part of the trenches of Plateau 400. I hope I will never see such a view again. I saw that the Turkish and Australian corpses were heaped up in four and five. Both sides showed great heroism at war...”