The Lone Pine at Gallipoli.
The following inscription appears on the Aleppo Pine in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra :
After the capture of the Lone Pine ridge in Gallipoli (6th August 1915), an Australian soldier who had taken part in the attack in which his brother was killed, found a cone on one of the branches used by the Turks as overhead cover for their trenches, and sent it to his mother. From seed shed by it she raised the tree which she presented, to be planted in the War Memorial grounds in honour of her own and others' sons who fell at Lone Pine.
In September 2006 an Aleppo pine, a direct descendant of the Lone Pine at Gallipoli was planted at the head of the Avenue to commemorate the 91st. anniversary of the Battle of Lone Pine. The tree was planted by Mrs Zillah Roach, nee Butterworth aided by her brother Verdun (Mick) Butterworth. The images above record the event. |
