Cape Helles

The Helles Memorial stands at Cape Helles at the south-west tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula. It is an obelisk 100 feet high and serves as a sea-mark for shipping. Few memorials can stand closer to the scene of the actual fighting where so many of those it commemorates died, for it was on the beaches below that the principal and most costly landings were made, starting on 25th April 1915. The obelisk stands on a raised platform and bears the dedicatory and other inscriptions. It Is surrounded by a wall, on both sides of which are carved the names of the 19,000 British, 250 Australian, and 1500 Indians who died in the Gallipoli Peninsula Campaign from 25th April until the last British troops were withdrawn in January 1916 and have no known grave; or were buried at sea from hospital ships, or were on ships which were sunk while taking them to or from the Peninsula.

Of the regiments named on the memorial, the Lancashire Fusiliers, with 1246, sustained the heaviest loses. The memorial was designed by John Burnett.