The cemetery located on the right side of the road, 200 m before Lone Pine, is the original martyrs’ cemetery. This location was the front of the 48th Regiment of the 16th Division stationed in the Lone Pine region. This region suffered heavy losses under heavy artillery bombardment and considerable machine gun fire. The soldiers who were martyred from the 72nd, 77th, 63rd and 48th Regiments posted to the surrounding regions are interred here as the region was also a dressing station.  

The cemetery is located on the slope to Karayörük Creek on the northern range of the PineRidge. It was constructed by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in 2006. A total of 1,153 soldiers martyred while serving in the 16th Division during the battles of Lone Pine are interred here. A wooden namazgah (openair place of worhip) is located near the metal plates of martyrdom whereon the names of the martyrs are inscribed. The martyrs’ cemetery, which can be accessed by a long staircase, was marked as die plate no. 17 in the map of Şevki Pasha and described as Original Martyrs’ Cemetery.

The story of the 2nd Division that joined the assault against the Anzac forces on May 19th, 1915: 
“The 2nd Division deployed from Istanbul to Arıburnu on May 13th 1915 was mostly formed of the students of the Istanbul High School and the volunteers of the Ottoman University. 50 students from the Istanbul High School voluntarily enlisted into the army and joined the Dardanelles Front, while the remaining students turned the school into an infirmary for the wounded. The Istanbul High school was serving at the premises in Karaköy Kemeraltı Avenue, today known as Saint Benoit French High School. The school was partially turned into an infirmary and painted in yellow. The group of volunteers of young men and high school students were sent to the headquarters at Halıcıoğlu for a shortterm training. These young men joined the 2nd Division when they arrived at Çanakkale.  

The high school students had yellow ribbons on their arms, while the students of medical high school had white. They were ordered to take off their ribbons during the assault of May 19th, in order not to be directly targeted by the enemy. The assault against the Anzac forces during the night of 18-19th of May was quite bloody. Soldiers fighting in the 2nd Division, most of which were students, were martyred and they only left the following sacred phrase on their yellow ribbons: “Istanbul High School-Long Live our Fatherland”

Hearing the news that 50 students of the Istanbul High school were martyred, the remaining students of the school painted the doors and plinth block in black in memory of the their deceased friends.