The battle at Lone Pine produced some of the highest number of casualties (dead and wounded) of the Gallipoli campaign. The diversionary attack cost the Australian Division over 2,000 men and the Turkish 16th Division was said to have lost 6,390 men in five days, with 5,000 in or near The Cup.
The bodies of dead soldiers from both sides crowded the open battlefield and trenches. Soldiers could not move through the trenches without walking on the bodies, sometimes several deep. Charles Bean notes that "the only respect which could be paid them was to avoid treading on their faces."
The treatment and evacuation of wounded soldiers was difficult in the congested trenches and exposed open areas, and many died from lack of treatment. Efforts to move casualties through the newly completed communication trenches were hampered by need to bring supplies and reinforcements into the front line.
