Azmak Cemetery

Azmak Cemetery near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey was constructed shortly after the end of the First World War by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and filled with graves brough in from small cemeteries and sites around it. It is on the south side of Azmak Dere, from which it takes its name, a small ravine which runs into the salt lake at Suvla Bay. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1388 KB) Summary Azmak Cemetery near Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli Peninsula. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 1388 KB) Summary Azmak Cemetery near Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli Peninsula. ... Suvla is a bay on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey, south of the Gulf of Saros. ... Gallipoli peninsula (Turkish: , Greek: ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... The Azmak Cemetery, near Suvla Bay, Turkey, contains the graves of some of the soldiers who died during the Gallipoli Campaign. ...

References

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission