The Pink Farm Cemetery

After the landings the Helles line was pushed slowly forward in the three battles of Krithia. The first battle was fought on 28^th April and the ground gained held against a Turkish counter-attack on 2^nd May. For the second battle from the 4^th to the 6^th May the British 29^th Division on the left and the French Division on the right were reinforced by a composite Division consisting on the 2^nd Australian Brigade, The New Zealand Brigade and two battalions from the Royal Naval Division; and for the third battle by the 42^nd British Division and the 29^th Indian Infantry Brigade. The gain of these three battles was an

advance of less than three km on a five km front. On 28^th June a successful engagement resulted in a useful advance on the left flank. The line thus formed was to remain static until the evacuation; an Allied attack from 6^th to 13^th August in support of the Suvla and Anzac operations made no permanent gain.

Skew Bridge and Twelve Tree Copse Cemeteries take their names from topographical features; Pink Farm from the Red soil on which it stood; and Redoubt Cemetery from the name of the line on which the Allied advance halted after the second battle. In these four cemeteries are the graves of those who died in the eight months of fighting after the landing.

Transcribed from the plaque inside the gate of Pink Farm Cemetery

Map detail reproduced from "Military Operations: Gallipoli", Volume II - maps & appendices, (London 1929), Brigadier-General Cecil F. Aspinall-Oglander.