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Lancashire Landing Cemetery
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Lancashire Landing Cemetery

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Lancashire Landing Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located in Eceabat, Çanakkale. This historic site on the Gallipoli Peninsula contains the graves of some Allied troops who died during the Battle of Gallipoli. The cemetery is named after the 1st Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers, who landed at W Beach on April 25, 1915, and suffered heavy casualties. It holds the graves of 1,237 Commonwealth service personnel, with 1,114 identified burials.

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