 The cemetery is 2 kilometres northeast of Seddülbahir on the Gallipoli Peninsula.Is named after a skewed wooden bridge which carried the road from Helles to Krithia across the Dere, a stream about 45 metres west of the cemetery and just behind the centre of the Allied lines.The cemetery was created during the fighting of 6–8 May 1915 and used until the Allied evacuation in January 1916.