Walker's Ridge Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Walker's Ridge Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near Suvla Bay in Turkey. It contains the remains of Allied soldiers killed during the Battle of Gallipoli.

Walker's Ridge
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Used for those deceased Aug - Dec 1915
Established1915
Total burials92
Unknowns
12
Burials by nation
Burials by war
Statistics source: Battlefields 14-18

It was constructed on a spur which was named by the occupying troops after the headquarters of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade, under the command of Brigadier-General Harold Walker, which was located there. The cemetery was formed during the occupation in 1915 and is divided into two plots 20 metres apart and originally separated by a trench.

Notable graves
Harold Rush's grave marker in Walker's Ridge Cemetery

Amongst the graves is that of 23-year-old Trooper Harold Rush of the 10th Australian Light Horse regiment. Rush was in the third wave of troops to charge Turkish trenches at the battle of the Nek on 7 August 1915. Seeing that previous two waves had been slaughtered, just before his wave attacked he turned to a fellow soldier and said "Goodbye Cobber, God bless you". His parents had these last words recorded on his grave marker.

References
  • Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  • "Walker's Ridge Cemetery". Battlefields 1914-1918. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
  • "RUSH, Harold". The spirits of Gallipoli. Retrieved 2008-07-30.

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