Redoubt Cemetery (2027 burials) is 100m west of the road along a track flanked by pine trees. Its name derives from the Redoubt Line the front line of British and French trenches established in May. It was started immediately after the second battle of Krithia in the rear of the support line.

The cemetery was begun by the 2nd Australian Infantry Brigade in May 1915 and continued in use until the evacuation. It was greatly increased after the Armistice when the battlefields were cleared and graves were brought in from smaller cemeteries.

Redoubt Cemetery takes its name from the chain of forts made by the Turks across the southern end of the peninsula in the fighting for Krithia and the Redoubt Line on which the advance halted in May.

It is on the west side of the Krithia – Seddülbahir Road, approximately south west of ‘The Vineyards’. It faces south to the entrance to the Dardanelles and is surrounded by a belt of shrubs.

Buried just to the right inside the gate at Redoubt is Lieutenant Colonel Robert Gartside, aged 52, who on 8 May 1915 was temporarily in charge of the 7th Battalion (Victoria) AIF. Gartside was supposedly the first man buried in this large cemetery of 2027 graves, less than 20 per cent of which are identified. He died hereabouts during the Australian advance, struck in the stomach by machine-gun bullets as he rose to lead another charge –‘Come on, boys, I know it’s deadly but we must go on’.