Walker's Ridge Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

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Walker's Ridge
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased Aug - Dec 1915
Established 1915
Location
Total burials 92
Unknown
burials
12
Burials by nation
Allied Powers:
Burials by war
World War I: 92
Statistics source: Battlefields 14-18

Walker's Ridge Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near Suvla Bay in Turkey. It contains the remains of Allied soldiers killed during the Battle of Gallipoli.

It was constructed on a spur which was named by the occupying troops after the headquarters of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade, under the command of Brigadier-General Harold Walker, which was located there. The cemetery was formed during the occupation in 1915 and is divided into two plots 20 metres apart and originally separated by a trench.

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