The Nek Cemetery is built on the former no-man's land where the dead lay until war's end. The Nek ...

The Nek Cemetery is built on the former no-man's land where the dead lay until war's end. The Nek was briefly captured by Australians on 25 April 1915, but was re-captured by the Turks. The Australian trench line was then established just below the Nek and both sides faced each other across this narrow bridge of land without resolution. Unsuccessful attacks were attempted, notably by the Turks on 19 May and the night of 29 June; and the ill-fated bayonet attack by the 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade on 7 August 1915, when 600 charged the enemy lines and were annihilated, over half became casualties and 234 were killed. Of the 316 dead buried today under the grass in this cemetery only five were identified; the five headstones in front of the Cross of Remembrance mark their graves.