Anzac - The Chunuk Bair New Zealand National memorial

The Gallipoli Houses - the first "hotel de charme" on the peninsula

 

 

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the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula

 

Inscription on the New Zealand memorial at Chunuk BairThe New Zealand memorial at Chunuk Bair

two Turkish soldiers reading the Ross Bastian plaque at Chunuk Bair

the Gallipoli Houses

 

back to if stones could speak

 

 

Beach Cemetery at Anzac

 

CHUNUK BAIR NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL MEMORIAL

CWGC - ANZAC
Last updated : 11/03/2007

 

Turkish Victory Monument at North Beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chunuk Bair.’ ‘They are our men’, and so they were. We reached the summit, should we hold it and should we progress?

Major General Frederick Shaw quoted in “Defeat at Gallipoli”, (London 2002), Nigel Steel & Peter Hart, p 239.

 

 

Segment of map reproduced from "The New Zealanders at Gallipoli”, (Auckland 1921), Fred Waite

the trenches after 10th August

 

 

 

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There is an observation post here... and from it one can see a large portion of the country over which we are operating. To that post about 4.15 went a procession of sleepy Generals and staff  carrying glasses, telescopes and anxiously awaiting the dawn, to show the success or otherwise of the troops. It began to get gradually lighter and all glasses were turned on the summit of Chunuk Bair, which was the only point of attack which could matter. Still it got lighter, and then someone said: ‘ I see men on