| Shell Green was a sloping
cottonfield on the seaward side of Bolton's Ridge at the
southern end of the Anzac area. Shell Green Cemetery is 300
metres up a hilly track from the coast road, which may not
be driveable in wet weather. The
cemetery was used from May to December 1915, largely by the
Australian Light Horse and the 9th and 11th Infantry
Battalions. It was originally two cemeteries a short
distance apart, but after the Armistice the two were
combined and enlarged when graves were brought in from the
battlefields and from Artillery Road and Artillery Road East
Cemeteries, Wright's Gully Cemetery and Eighth Battery
Cemetery. In 1927, the graves of a number of servicemen who
died in 1922 and 1923 were also brought to Shell Green from
the latter cemetery. |
