Allied Cemetery of Portianou

From April 1915 up until 1920, hundreds of dead soldiers from the Gallipoli Campaign were buried in the “Allied Cemetery of Portianou”, which stands to this day. There are 352 well kept graves of British, French, Australian, New Zealand, Egyptian and Indian soldiers in cemetery. During the Gallipoli Campaign Portianou was chosen as the command centre by the young Winston Churchill, mastermind behind the ill fated war effort. The seat he used in the house he occupied is on exhibition in the local “Portianou Folkloric Museum”.