Walker's Ridge | |
Body: | Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
Use Dates: | Aug–Dec 1915 |
Established: | 1915 |
Coordinates: | 40.2417°N 26.2882°W |
Total: | 92 |
Unknowns: | 12 |
By Country: | Allied Powers
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By War: | World War I 92 |
Source: | Battlefields 14–18 |
Walker's Ridge Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near Suvla Bay in Turkey. It contains the remains of Allied soldiers killed during the Battle of Gallipoli.
It was constructed on a spur which was named by the occupying troops after the headquarters of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade, under the command of Brigadier-General Harold Walker, which was located there. The cemetery was formed during the occupation in 1915 and is divided into two plots 20 metres apart and originally separated by a trench.
Amongst the graves is that of 23-year-old Trooper Harold Rush of the 10th Australian Light Horse regiment. Rush was in the third wave of troops to charge Turkish trenches at the battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915. Seeing that previous two waves had been slaughtered, just before his wave attacked he turned to a fellow soldier and said "Goodbye Cobber, God bless you". His parents had these last words recorded on his grave marker.