In Loving Memory of my Grandfather's Brother. Aged 20 when he died.
In Memory of
Corporal GEORGE HENRY BRIGHT
13th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
who died on Monday, 3rd May 1915.
Remembered with honour
WALKER'S RIDGE CEMETERY, ANZAC, Turkey.
In the perpetual care of
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
| Cemetery: | WALKER'S RIDGE CEMETERY, ANZAC, Turkey |
| Grave Reference/ Panel Number: |
Sp. Mem. 4. |
| Location: | Walker's Ridge Cemetery is 250 metres along a level track from the road, north of Lone Pine on the road to Hill 60, almost due east of Anzac Cove. |
| Historical Information: | Walker's Ridge was the name given to the spur stretching almost from the coast near Fisherman's Hut South-Eastwards to the middle of Russell's Top. It was, on the 25th April, the post of command of Brigadier-General Walker (later Major-General Sir H. B. Walker, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.S.O.), then commanding the New Zealand Infantry Brigade. It was held by a mixed force until the 27th, when the New Zealanders took it over. On the 30th June it was held, with Russell's Top, by the 8th and 9th Australian Light Horse Regiments against an attack. The cemetery was made during the occupation and consists of two plots separated by 18 metres of ground, through which a trench ran. There are now nearly 100, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 10 are unidentified and 18 soldiers from Australia and eight from New Zealand, for whom there is evidence of burial in the cemetery, are commemorated by special tablets. The Cemetery covers an area of 513 square metres. |
Information provided from The Commonwealth War Graves Commision
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