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![New Zealand Memorial to the Missing at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. Photo of a large memorial with crosses on its four faces. Graves are in the foreground](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXmORsKSUy9Bx2ke448kHAXZaWAA2Lc1BvDwBvXadsHsp7XxyHjP_hhWnhLdtDmg684BGHjgogFh8k5DUfmnLCPKNU4eqbOQdk6sUlr_3D5hNj3od3ttGXNymNaHKpsxMDJzigco5OBdLPGqdO3g-M37v8IbdUiB7C1p7yLo6Lvf2qcJsAydUCI_ucf73j/w256-h320/Memorial%20to%20NZ%20Missing%20Lone%20PIne.jpeg) |
New Zealand Memorial to the Missing at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. Image: Lainey Myers-Davies |
Recent research indicates that at least 16,000, possibly more than 17,000, NZ Expeditionary Force (NZEF) soldiers served at Gallipoli in the First World War (Wikipedia) in the period April - December 1915. During the entire War, the NZEF experienced a 58% casualty rate, one of the highest of any country's forces in WW1. Given that New Zealand's total population at the start of the War was just over one million, the country was hit hard by its losses. At Gallipoli, due to the extreme terrain and type of combat, 67% (1,862) of those killed were recorded as 'missing' (had no known grave). The New Zealand Memorial at Lone Pine – one of many features on the peninsula that was closely-contested by Anzac troops – has the names of 753 missing NZ soldiers recorded on it. There are four other memorials at Gallipoli dedicated to New Zealand Anzacs.
![Gallipoli plateaus and ridges the Anzacs fought on. Source : Gsl at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Map showing Anzac Cove in relation to named features on the Gallipoli Peninsula](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBo2McpvkTbMo5gMNr4gDEDV7UE0lXl2de7JKp2_pahLrW1j-kabB3PWZyo7EvZMTSBEyEiXGh4LrJQEGtTC45oTzsM5FnApdBb9cQT99N3QuNU3ZOs2Rr2BeGVQafj6pXk5bolmdhyphenhyphenBOt-9gm4zjBpaYkp_nLxqqW4LTgi-U9CsTW0VETmPUDfpABm9rk/w349-h400/Anzac%20plateaus%20and%20ridges.jpg) |
Gallipoli plateaus and ridges the Anzacs fought on. Source : Gsl at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. |
Gallipoli Missing
| | ANZAC Cove Chunuk Bair Courtney's Post The Daisy Patch Dead Man's Ridge Destroyer Hill The Farm Fishermen's Hut Gaba Tepe Happy Valley Hill Q Hill 971 Howitzer Gully Hughes Gully Johnston's Jolly Long Sap Lone Pine Malone's Gully Monash Gully The Nek Otago Gully Outpost No. 1 Overton Gully
Plugge's Plateau Quinn's Post… |
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ANDERSON O.F. ARMSTRONG E.R. BAIN J.S. BARGROVE W.T. BORTHWICK A. BOURGEOIS A.J.H…… DAVIES W. DAVIS F.A. DAWSON B.F. DE CASTRO A.H…..JOYCE H.B. JURD E.A. KAUTER W. KEITH J. KELLET J.R. KELSALL V.A. KEMP W.D. KENNEDY W. KENT A.W.…..MacDONALD A. MALONE W.G. MAYO G.D. McDONALD A. McKENZIE J. MINCHIN W. MOORE S.G. MURPHY R…..OLDS J. OLEN V.A. OLIVER B.W. OLSEN N. OWENS P.J. OXLEY T.C…... PAPUNI K. PARKER A.J. PARKINSON T. PATERSON J. PATON J.S…..SEWELL E. SHEFFIELD P.F.J. SHELDON J.J.W SHERMAN A.J…..WAIHIA T. WAKE H.L…..
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| | ......Taihape Tairua Takaka Taumarunui Taupo Tauranga Te Anau Te Aroha Te Awamutu Te Kauwhata Te Kuiti Te Puke Temuka Thames Timaru Tokoroa Turangi Upper Hutt Waihi Waihi Beach Waikouaiti Waimate Waiouru Waipawa Waipukurau Wairoa Waitara Waiuku Wakefield Wanaka Warkworth Wellington.....….. | | |
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This 'shape' poem was commended in the New Zealand Poetry Society's 2015 International Poetry Competition and published in its anthology Scattered Feathers. The horizontal bar of the cross names a few of the large number of NZ Gallipoli missing. The top portion of the vertical column identifies battle-sites and other features on the peninsula that the Anzacs fought for and over. Some of the villages, towns, and cities that New Zealand soldiers enlisted from to travel to fight in a war half a world away are listed in the lower part of the cross. All these places have war memorials naming their casualties.
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