| The Nek Cemetery is a
short distance north of Quinn's Post. The Nek is the track
leading along the narrow spur from Russell's Top to Baby
700, and the cemetery stands on a ridge with Pope's Hill on
the south-west and Molane's Gully on the north-west.
The Nek was a narrow track leading from
Russell's top to Baby 700 which was reached and passed by
the 12th Australian Battalion early on 25 April, but not
held. It was attacked by the New Zealand and Australian
Division on 2 May, and by the 3rd Australian Light Horse
Brigade on the morning of 7 August, but was never retaken.
The cemetery was made after the Armistice in what had been
No Man's Land. There are now 326 Commonwealth servicemen of
the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
316 of the burials are unidentified but there are special
memorials to five Australian soldiers believed to be buried
among them. |
