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by a second one which exploded right over their tent. Avni was wounded and missing an arm. As he ly on the ground dying his last words were "give notice to my family, long live the nation". He was 40 years old. His comrades buried him close by. He was succeeded as commander of the 57th
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Hüseyin Avni’s grave (Şehit Yarbay Hüseyin Avni Bey Anıt Mezarı) is located in area is known as
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On the morning of a religious festival on 13 August 1915, the regiment’s officers decided to use a site overlooking Anzac Cove near the regiment's field hospital to exchange greetings, as they thought it be out of the enemy’s artillery range. However a howitzer shell exploded 10 metre away followed
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For many years Tekin Arıburun searched for his father's battlefield grave. The only description of its location that he had was that it was close to those three pines, on a small height near where the command post of the 57th
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when in response to the perceived threats to the
Dardanelles the III Corps of which the 19th Division was part was assigned the task of reinforcing the Gallipoli Peninsula. As a result the 57th regiment received orders on the 21 February 1915 to transfer to Gallipoli. On 25 February the regiment
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Turkish citizens to adopt a surname. The surname "Arıburun" was specifically chosen by Atatürk to honour the heroic acts of the Turkish soldiers who fought at Gallipoli. Arıburun means "the point purified by martyrs' blood" and taken from "Ariburu", the Turkish name for the
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of 1897. Afterwards he was assigned on 23 May 1897 to serve as an assistant officer in the headquarters of the
Pristina 20th Redif Livası. On 10 January 1898 he was promoted to captain and assigned to the 38th Redif Regiment in the 2nd Stip Battalion of the 1st Division.
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arrived at Maydos by steamship. By April 1915 the 19th divisional headquarters and divisional units were stationed on the
Yeldegirmeni Plains near the village of Bigalı (Boghali) while the actual regiments were around Maltepe and Mersintepe on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
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identified by a rusted tinplate bearing the words, "Commander of the 57th
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31st, 1331 – August 13th, 1915, Pray Fatiha”. Also present underneath a Turkish flag is a plaque that bears a longer description, dedicated to the dead of the 57th regiment and listing its achievements.
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