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Shrapnel Valley Cemetery is a cemetery from World War I and is the second largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, after Lone Pine Cemetery. ==History== The battles at Gallipoli, some of whose participating soldiers are buried at this cemetery, was an eight-month campaign fought by Commonwealth and French forces against Ottoman Empire forces in an attempt to force the Ottoman Empire out of the war, which it was hoped would relieve the deadlock of the Western Front and to open a supply route between Russia and the Mediterranean through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. Following the landing at Anzac Cove in April 1915, Shrapnel Valley (or Shrapnel Gully) became the main route for Allied troops and supplies between the beach and the frontline in the Anzac sector. Falling shrapnel made a distinctive whistling before striking the area.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Shrapnel Valley )〕 It was during the battles in the early days of the campaign that the name for the gully was coined.〔 Later, several wells were dug in the valley and camps and gun emplacements constructed in the lower end. On the night of 18 to 19 May 1915, the 5th Light Horse Regiment from Queensland began an offensive through the valley. The cemetery is a trapezoidal shaped area larger than an average city block. It was in use during the campaign, and some additional graves were moved from outlying sites into it after the war. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shrapnel Valley Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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