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Inscriptions on panels[edit]

Photos with some of the inscriptions and panel wordings are here and here. Carcharoth (talk) 11:06, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In honoured memory of the units and ships which fought on Gallipoli or in the Dardanelles and of these 20,504 British sailors and soldiers and 248 Australian soldiers who fell in this neighbourhood 1914-1916 and have no known graves.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD / AND IN REVERENT MEMORY OF THESE / EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE / OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE FORCES / OF THE UNITED KINGDOM DROWNED IN / THE "ROYAL EDWARD" TRANSPORT / WHICH WAS TORPEDOED ON THE / 13TH AUGUST 1915. / ALL OF WHOM HAVE / NO OTHER GRAVE THAN THE SEA. / "HE DISCOVERETH DEEP THINGS OUT / OF DARKNESS AND BRINGETH OUT TO / LIGHT THE SHADOW OF DEATH"

See HMT Royal Edward. Similar wording used to commemorate the casualties of the SS Southland (redirect to SS Vaderland (1900)), Hythe (see SS Sarnia (1910)) and Mercian troop ships. Also: Panel to the ANZACs; Panel to the Suvla IX Corps; Panel to the Helles VIII Corps; Panel to Royal Navy ships that participated in the campaign. Carcharoth (talk) 11:19, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ships named on the panel to Royal Navy ships that participated in the Gallipoli campaign (ships sunk during the campaign marked with an asterisk, and those sunk elsewhere marked by a double asterisk): BATTLESHIPS: HMS Agamemnon, HMS Albion, HMS Canopus, HMS Cornwallis(**), HMS Exmouth, HMS Glory, HMS Goliath(*), HMS Hibernia, HMS Implacable, HMS Irresistible(*), HMS London, HMS Lord Nelson, HMS Majestic(*), HMS Mars, HMS Ocean(*), HMS Prince George, HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Queen, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Russell(**), HMS Swiftsure, HMS Triumph(*), HMS Venerable, HMS Vengeance, HMS Zealandia. BATTLE CRUISERS: HMS Inflexible. CRUISERS: HMS Bacchante, HMS Blenheim, HMS Cornwall, HMS Edgar, HMS Endymion, HMS Euryalus, HMS Grafton, HMS Theseus. Some of the ships that survived the war may still have been damaged and lost crew members commemorated on this memorial (e.g. HMS Inflexible). Carcharoth (talk) 09:27, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Other shipwrecks[edit]

From Category:World War I shipwrecks in the Dardanelles, the five battleships sunk are listed above (Goliath, Irresistible, Majestic, Ocean and Triumph). Other shipwrecks that may have resulted in casualties listed on this memorial (or not, if the casualties were buried ashore or all the crew survived) are: one ship HMS Arno (1915), and three submarines HMAS AE2, HMS E7 and HMS E15. The other memorials to the missing erected on the Gallipoli peninsula are listed at List of war cemeteries and memorials on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Carcharoth (talk) 10:20, 11 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]