World War I Graves
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey (Anzac)

Shell Green Cemetery

ROWLEY, Private, GEORGE ALBERT, 2656	1st Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.	Died of wounds 7th December 1915.	Son of Henry and Emily Rowley.	Native of Sydney, New South Wales.	Plot 2 Row D Grave 4.
Shell Green was a sloping cotton field 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. Shell Green was captured, and passed, by the 8th Australian Infantry Battalion on the morning of 25 April, but it remained close to the Turkish line throughout the campaign and was subject to frequent shelling. 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. The cemetery now contains 409 First World War burials, 11 of them unidentified.

ROWLEY, Private, ERNEST FITZROY, 843.	4th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F.	Died of wounds 30th April 1915. Age 32.	Son of James and Mary Ellen Rowley, of "Fitzroy," Sydney View Parade, Guildford, New South Wales, Australia	Native of Granville, New South Wales, Australia.	Plot I Row A Grave 25.
Beach Cemetery is situated on what was known as Hell Spit, at the southern point of Anzac Cove. The graves lie between the Kelia-Suvla road and the beach, and the Cross is on the east side of the road. The cemetery is constructed on a very severe slope. Beach Cemetery was used from the day of the landing at Anzac, almost until the evacuation. There are 391 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 22 of the burials are unidentified but special memorials commemorate 11 casualties believed to be buried among them.