| Embarkation Pier is on
the north side of the mouth of Chailak Dere, at the north
end of Ocean Beach (or North Beach). The cemetery is a
little way inland, between the beach and the road from Anzac
to Suvla. Early in August 1915,
the Embarkation Pier area was occupied by the headquarters
of two divisions, and later by a casualty clearing station.
The pier was made for the purpose of evacuating wounded from
the Battle of Sari Bair, but it came under heavy rifle and
shell fire and was abandoned after just two days. Apart from
five original burials, the cemetery is made up of burials
brought in after the Armistice from the cemeteries known as
Chailak Dere Nos 1 and 2, Mulberry Tree, and Apex, and from
isolated graves. |
