The sign for the Trenches of the 125th Regiment may be seen on the right side of the main road to Chunuk Bair that can be accessed after crossing the Lone Pine Memorial. This is the location where the tunneling battles that began at the end of May occurred. The Anzac troops attacking from the lines of Arıburnu advanced easily at first; however they later retreated to the Johnston's Jolly due to the assaults of the Machinegun Company of the 27th Regiment. 
During the assault launched by the Turkish side to rebuff the ANZAC Corps on May 19, thousands of soldiers died. The soldiers were martyred here at the battle of May 19, the day of the heaviest Turkish losses. By the one-day truce of May 24 that lasted from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the Turkish and Australian soldiers found the opportunity to inter their martyrs. Most of the martyrs of the 2nd Division were interred at this point. John Simpson Kirkpatrick, known by the Allies as the Man with the Donkey who carried wounded soldiers with his donkey, died at Arıburnu during this assault. Johnston’s Jolly, covering the most prominent ridges that survived to the present day, is located across from the Anzac trenches

Sermon William Dexter helping to bury the soldiers who died on May 24th 
“The ground was simply covered with dead between the trenches. The bodies were horrible to look at being black and swelled up stretching out the clothing”

Words of Mehmet Nazım as narrated by the intelligence officer Aubrey Herbert who wandered with Mehmet Nazım in the battlefield amidst thousands of Turkish martyrs during the Truce of May 24th 24 
“At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most savage must weep”