Canterbury | |
Body: | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
Use Dates: | Aug – Dec 1915 |
Established: | 1919 |
Nearest Town: | Gallipoli, Turkey |
Total: | 27 |
Unknowns: | 5 |
By Country: | Allied Powers
27 |
By War: | World War I 27 |
Source: | Battlefields 14–18 |
Canterbury Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located at ANZAC Cove in Turkey. It contains the remains of 27 soldiers from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. 26 were from the Canterbury Mounted Rifles and one from the Wellington Regiment. It is the only CWGC cemetery on the Gallipoli peninsula which has no epitaphs on any of the grave markers.