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The 1st Turkish Memorial at ANZAC |
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Over 50 Turkish Memorials at Gallipoli are on Graveyards of Gallipoli |
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| This certificate relates
to a memorial erected by the Turkish Army at Anzac Beach c.1916-1918, to
commemorate 'Driving the British Forces into the Sea' on the Gallipoli
Peninsula in late 1915 and early 1916.
In December 1918, a regiment of the Australian Light Horse and a regiment of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles were sent to the Gallipoli battlefields from Egypt by the War Office. The party was distressed to find that the Turks had removed many grave markers from the earlier battles and had erected their own memorial instead. The Australians destroyed the Turkish
memorial after taking the photograph of it that appears inside this
folded certificate. The statement of authenticity indicates that the
certificate originally accompanied a piece of white marble from the
memorial but this is not with the certificate now. |
