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| Lone Pine Memorial | |
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The Lone Pine Memorial is one of five Memorials to the Missing for Commonwealth troops who lost their lives in the eight month-long Gallipoli campaign of 1915 and who have no known grave (the others are at Helles, Hill 60, Twelve Tree Copse, and Chunuk Bair). The Memorial is at the east end of Lone Pine Cemetery, which stands on the plateau at the top of Victoria Gully, and is located on the road from Gaba Tepe to Chunuk Bair. The site saw some of the fiercest fighting in the Anzac sector and overlooks the front line of May 1915. After it was captured in the initial landings of April, the plateau was retaken by the Turks in May and held until the beginning of August when the position was stormed by the 1st Australian Brigade. It then remained in Australian hands until the entire Gallipoli campaign was abandoned in December. The Memorial commemorates more than 4900 Australian and New Zealand servicemen who died in the Anzac area--the New Zealanders prior to the August fighting--whose graves are not known. Others named on the memorial died at sea, either in battle or on hospital ships, and were buried in waters off the Peninsula. (bio by: Paul F. Wilson)
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Lone Pine Cemetery (and Memorial), Anzac
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Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey
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Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Sep 03, 2000
Find A Grave Memorial# 12217 |
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