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the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula
On 17 December 1915, a famous game of cricket was played at Shell Green, Anzac, as Turkish shells passed overhead. The batsman, Major George Macarthur Onslow, 7th Light Horse Regiment, NSW, has just been caught out. The game was part of the various deceptions planned to deceive the Turks that all was normal at Anzac while the evacuation was
In his book "A fortunate life", Bert Facey describes (p. 269) how he helped bury his brother, Roy Barker Facey :
… I helped to bury Roy and fifteen of our mates who also had been killed on the twenty-eight. We put them in a grave side by side on the edge of a clearing we called Shell Green. Roy was in pieces when they found him. We put him together as best as we could –I can remember carrying a leg- it was terrible.