| Beach | |
| Body: | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
| Use Dates: | August–December 1915 |
| Established: | 1915 |
| Total: | 391 |
| By Country: | Allied Powers
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| By War: | World War I 391 |
| Source: | Old Front Line Battlefields of WW1 |
Beach Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery containing the remains of allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli. It is located at Hell Spit, at the southern end of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
The first graves were dug on the day of the landing 25 April 1915 and it continued to be used almost until the evacuation of the Anzac area on 20 December.
The majority of the graves, 285, are from the Australian Imperial Force, including that of Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick[1] and three New Zealanders.It also contains 21 troops from the New Zealand army, 49 British personnel and three from the 80-strong Ceylon Tea Planters’ contingent. The tea planters were used as the Anzac commander, General William Birdwood's bodyguard. There are also 21 graves whose occupants are unknown.
Apart from Kirkpatrick, other notable graves include those of:
The cemetery was designed in the 1920s by Sir John Burnet, and was registered as a cultural heritage site by the Turkish Ministry of Culture on 14 November 1980.