WALKER'S RIDGE CEMETERY (ANZAC)
Gallipoli
Turkey
Location Information
The Anzac and Suvla cemeteries are first signposted from the left hand junction of the Eceabat - Bigali Road. From this junction you travel into the main Anzac area. After 11.8 km's, follow the metalled track to Walker's Ridge cemetery which is 250 metres from the main road.
Visiting Information
The Cemetery is permanently open and may be visited at any time.
Historical Information
The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea.
The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac.
On 25 April, Walker's Ridge was the post of command of Brigadier-General Walker, then commanding the New Zealand Infantry Brigade. It was held by a mixed force until 27 April, when the New Zealanders took it over. A Turkish attempt to take the ridge on 30 June was repulsed by the 8th and 9th Australian Light Horse.
The cemetery was made during the occupation and consists of two plots separated by 18 metres of ground, through which a trench ran.
There are now 92 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 16 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate 26 soldiers known or believed to be buried in the cemetery.
Identified Casualties
New Zealand 45
Australia 30
United Kingdom 1
Cemetery pictures © Geerhard Joos
The Anzac and Suvla cemeteries are first signposted from the left hand junction of the Eceabat - Bigali Road. From this junction you travel into the main Anzac area. After 11.8 km's, follow the metalled track to Walker's Ridge cemetery which is 250 metres from the main road.
Visiting Information
The Cemetery is permanently open and may be visited at any time.
Historical Information
The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea.
The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac.
On 25 April, Walker's Ridge was the post of command of Brigadier-General Walker, then commanding the New Zealand Infantry Brigade. It was held by a mixed force until 27 April, when the New Zealanders took it over. A Turkish attempt to take the ridge on 30 June was repulsed by the 8th and 9th Australian Light Horse.
The cemetery was made during the occupation and consists of two plots separated by 18 metres of ground, through which a trench ran.
There are now 92 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 16 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate 26 soldiers known or believed to be buried in the cemetery.
Identified Casualties
New Zealand 45
Australia 30
United Kingdom 1
Cemetery pictures © Geerhard Joos
213 Quartermaster Sergeant Elias Judell, 9th Australian Light Horse, 9th August 1915, aged 24. Son of Leopold and Rebecca Judell, of 16, Northgate St., Unley Park, South Australia. Of Orroroo, South Australia. Plot II. C. 6. Inscriprion "He was a good son a true friend and loved his country"
28 Private
Clarence Leslie Chandler
2nd Bn. Australian Infantry, A, I, F.
2nd May 1915.
Special Memorial 6.
Inscription "Their glory shall not be blotted out"
INSCRIPTIONTHEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
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Portrait of 28 Private Clarence Landle Littlefield from Concord West, NSW, who enlisted on 20 August 1914 as Clarence Leslie Chandler and was an original member of the 2nd Battalion. Pte Chandler landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915; he was killed in action on 2 May, aged 20, and buried in the Walker's Ridge Cemetery. When the Graves Registration Unit commenced their work after the war in the 1920s his grave could not be found. Among the 92 men buried in this cemetery, 18 Australian and eight New Zealand soldiers, for whom there was evidence of burial in the cemetery, including Pte Chandler, are now commemorated by special memorial tablets.
Clarence Leslie Chandler
2nd Bn. Australian Infantry, A, I, F.
2nd May 1915.
Special Memorial 6.
Inscription "Their glory shall not be blotted out"
INSCRIPTIONTHEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
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Portrait of 28 Private Clarence Landle Littlefield from Concord West, NSW, who enlisted on 20 August 1914 as Clarence Leslie Chandler and was an original member of the 2nd Battalion. Pte Chandler landed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915; he was killed in action on 2 May, aged 20, and buried in the Walker's Ridge Cemetery. When the Graves Registration Unit commenced their work after the war in the 1920s his grave could not be found. Among the 92 men buried in this cemetery, 18 Australian and eight New Zealand soldiers, for whom there was evidence of burial in the cemetery, including Pte Chandler, are now commemorated by special memorial tablets.
Major
Thomas Harold Redford
8th Australian Light Horse
7th August 1915, aged 34.
Plot II. C. 9.
Inscription "Mine" Malachi III. 17.
Son of Thomas and Isabel Redford; husband of Ruth Redford, of "Kaikora," 49, Middlehead Rd, Mosman, New South Wales. Born at Warrnambool, Victoria.
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Captain (Capt) Thomas Harold Redford, 11th Light Horse Regiment (Victorian Mounted Rifles). This unit was disbanded in 1912. Capt Redford of Warrnambool, Vic, enlisted in the First World War, serving as a major with the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment. He was killed in action at the Nek, Gallipoli on 7 August 1915, aged 34 years.
Thomas Harold Redford
8th Australian Light Horse
7th August 1915, aged 34.
Plot II. C. 9.
Inscription "Mine" Malachi III. 17.
Son of Thomas and Isabel Redford; husband of Ruth Redford, of "Kaikora," 49, Middlehead Rd, Mosman, New South Wales. Born at Warrnambool, Victoria.
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Captain (Capt) Thomas Harold Redford, 11th Light Horse Regiment (Victorian Mounted Rifles). This unit was disbanded in 1912. Capt Redford of Warrnambool, Vic, enlisted in the First World War, serving as a major with the 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment. He was killed in action at the Nek, Gallipoli on 7 August 1915, aged 34 years.
