LT-COLONEL HASAN'S GRAVE
YARBAY HASAN BEY ŞEHİTLİĞİ
Don’t
kill the Frenchman, he did his duty.
Supposedly last words of Lt-Colonel Hasan (*) killed by a wounded Frenchman.
(*) Commander of the 17th Regiment, 6th Division.
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The Kereviz Dere Battles, which lasted two days, were mainly fought by troops of
the 4th, 6th and 7th Divisions. These Divisions lost 9.462 men of which 113
officers.
translated from "A brief history of the Çanakkale Campaign in the First World War"
(June 1914-January 1916), (Ankara 2004), The Turkish General Staff Directorate
of Military History, p. 181