Mehmet Çavuş Anıtı (Sergeant Mehmet Memorial), Sari Bair Ridge, Eceabat District,
Çanakkale Province

The white obelisk of Sergeant Mehmet's tomb is set in a walled grassy area. It commemorates the Sergeant and his squad of twenty-five soldiers who fought here to the death after the landings. Mehmet's last words, according to Bean, were, 'I die happily for my country, and you, my comrade, will avenge me.' The cemetery is on the spot where the Australian charge of 7 August was halted. When they had run out of ammunition, the determined Turkish defenders used stones and their bare fists in their attempts to halt the attack. They named the site, Courage Hill (Cesaret Tepe). After the Allied Evacuation of December 1915, three monuments were erected: one at Lone Pine, one on North Beach and the third, here, the only one to survive. The base his original, the obelisk was added later, replacing the four shells on top of the monument. It was built next to a semi circular trench dug by men of Captain J. P. Lalor's 12th Battalion on the morning of 25 April and to which private Howe's party later climbed the Nek.

Source: Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide for Gallipoli