War graves
Database of 2,257 soldiers buried in the French military cemetery at Seddul-bahr.
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About the cemetery
The French cemetery at Seddul-Bahr. Image: Serpil and Bill Sellars.
The French military cemetery (Fransız Mezarlığı) is located north-east of the village of Seddul-Bahr (Seddülbahir). View on Google Maps.
Finding a grave
Graves are numbered from 1 to 2,256 and laid out sequentially. There are no plots. If you're facing the main memorial, grave number 1 is at the far left corner of the row closest to the memorial.
Five ossuaries have been established within the cemetery. Four are found below the main memorial tower, the other in the south-east corner.
To locate a grave within the cemetery, Geneanet.org has a useful map.
This cemetery database combines two sources to provide a searchable register of the 2,257 French soldiers buried at Seddul-bahr. Names may have variant spellings or errors, so search broadly and check multiple fields. Not all records contain complete information, and death dates may be approximate. See the sections below for more details on data sources, quality, and licensing.
The data is derived from two lists, using the grave number as the key.
Early cemetery register — transcribed by the French embassy in Ankara (2015):
- The embassy had access to two registers: one ordered by grave number, the other by name. The former was found more reliable and was used for the transcript.
- Notes made during transcription are recorded as ‘Observations (2015)’, documenting discrepancies between the two registers.
- The booklet’s author cautions that comprehensive research was not conducted, nor should the list be considered definitive.
MemorialGenWeb.org — volunteer research matching names to casualty records:
- MemorialGenWeb is run by volunteers. Jean-Claude Stella is credited for the Seddul-Bahr cemetery page.
- This list is especially useful as volunteers have matched names to personnel records.
- This data is headed ‘MemorialGenWeb research’.
The authors of this website also made minor corrections and additions, including 17 men found in 2022 during excavation work at Seddul-Bahr castle.
- Names often have variant spellings or are incomplete.
- Not all records contain complete information.
- Death dates may be approximate.
Data from MemorialGenWeb.org is available under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0.
The data on this page is made available with the same licence.
Website updates: Contact us.
Grave marker corrections: Contact the French ministry of defence, direction des Patrimoines, de la Mémoire et des Archives (DPMA).