Inventory

We’ve compiled a list of all known cemeteries, ossuaries and memorials. It’s being maintained in Airtable, a spreadsheet-cum-database.

The list is embedded below, or open the list in a new window.

Consider it a working list, as there are many ambiguities and unknowns. Some coordinates are approximate only.

Contact us if you can contribute to the list.

Many, if not all, the cemeteries listed here would have been battlefield burial grounds. In 1923, the cemeteries were consolidated in a single necropolis, which is today’s French military cemetery.

Traces of the old cemeteries can be found in their boundary walls and memorials. Typically an obelisk was placed in the centre of a cemetery. The footings of some of these memorials can still be seen.

In 1926, plaques from the memorials were removed and placed within a Mur de souvenir (wall of remembrance) in the French military cemetery.

Of the three ossuaries, no traces of the Ganeval ossuary are likely to be found, as the Turkish memorial Abide has been built over the headland of Eski Hisarlik. Until recently, some stones that might’ve been part of the Masnou ossuary were visible near the water pumping station, north of the memorial, but these have disappeared since construction of the Azerbaijan monument. The website authors know nothing of the Kilid Bahr ossuary, and are keen to learn more.