It has long been a military station for the dominant nation of the area , and was a major staging point for British and Commonwealth troops before the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of World War I. A cemetery for 900 of these gallant men can be found at Moudrosenear the harbor where they set forth to their fate .
The men who fought in World War I were undeserving to be buried so instead they were all cremated and their ashes thrown into the ocean .