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Lone Pine was a plateau 120 metres (390 ft) above sea level in the southern part of the Anzac sector, which was captured on the morning of the landings, 25 April 1915, and abandoned that evening, but recaptured the following day only to be given up to the
Turkish forces again that evening. The
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The Lone Pine
Memorial was constructed by the New Zealand Government, the 753 names on the memorial are New Zealand Soldiers, 4,934 Australian and New Zealand troops killed in the sector but who have no known grave. In addition special memorials commemorate 182 Australian and 1 British soldier
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The cemetery was constructed during the campaign and at the end of it held 46 graves. It was greatly enlarged after the
Armistice by moving isolated graves into it and by consolidating other smaller cemeteries in the area, such as Brown's Dip North and South Cemeteries.
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A single pine tree was planted in the cemetery during its landscaping and enlargement in the 1920s. It is sometimes said to be a descendant of the original tree but this is not so, since it is a different species, a
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The tree was obliterated during the fighting, but at least two
Australian soldiers took cones of both Turkish Pine and Allepo Pine back to Australia, from which numerous
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The main landings were in April 1915, with primarily
British and French troops landing at the tip of the peninsula around Cape Helles and Australian and New Zealand (
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The position was recaptured by the Anzac troops on 6 August following extensive preparations (which included the digging of mines underneath it) during the
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Commonwealth War Graves
Commission cemeteries in Gallipoli
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Turks retained it for the next three months, calling it
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698:V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial
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603:Australian Service Nurses National Memorial
388:"Notes on the Lone Pine - Pinus halepensis"
45:Used for those deceased April–December 1915
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519:. Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
343:List of Australian military memorials
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876:Military Museum and Bombing Memorial
448:"Champion trees in CWGC cemeteries"
503:Commonwealth War Graves Commission
492:Commonwealth War Graves Commission
188:Commonwealth War Graves Commission
30:Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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591:Australian Merchant Navy Memorial
455:Commonwealth War Grave Commission
657:Vietnam Forces National Memorial
597:Australian Peacekeeping Memorial
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945:Rockingham Naval Memorial Park
639:Royal Australian Navy Memorial
289:The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
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824:Australian–American Memorial
808:Mount Macedon Memorial Cross
721:Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
335:Military of Australia portal
517:"Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC"
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756:South African War Memorial
750:South African War Memorial
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733:Victory Memorial Gardens
585:Australian Army Memorial
570:Major national monuments
563:Australian war memorials
206:and the location of the
174:Statistics source:
894:Rats of Tobruk Memorial
802:Light Horse Interchange
796:Johnstone Park Memorial
688:(Lae, Papua New Guinea)
680:Australian Soldier Park
674:Australian War Memorial
621:Kings Park War Memorial
609:Australian War Memorial
392:Australian War Memorial
176:Battlefields 1914-1918
817:World War II memorials
367:Battlefields 1914-1918
772:World War I memorials
651:Shrine of Remembrance
645:Shrine of Remembrance
627:National War Memorial
497:Lone Pine Memorial -
486:Lone Pine Cemetery -
190:cemetery dating from
904:Korean War memorials
635:(Sydney to Canberra)
633:Remembrance Driveway
525:"Lone Pine Memorial"
418:"Lone Pine Memorial"
363:"Lone Pine Cemetery"
220:battles at Gallipoli
911:Korean War Memorial
882:El Alamein Fountain
700:(Fromelles, France)
694:(Gallipoli, Turkey)
682:(Beersheba, Israel)
303:commemorative trees
247:Battle of Lone Pine
241:Battle of Lone Pine
214:Battle of Gallipoli
200:Gallipoli Peninsula
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692:Lone Pine Memorial
208:Lone Pine Memorial
184:Lone Pine Cemetery
106:Total burials
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888:Hellenic Memorial
830:Avenues of Honour
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149:New Zealand
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50:Established
965:Categories
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781:(Ballarat)
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758:(Brisbane)
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481:References
311:stone pine
270:See also:
235:Kanli Sirt
137:Australian
92:near
70:26°17′14″E
67:40°13′51″N
921:Campaigns
867:O'Connell
846:Booroopki
798:(Geelong)
468:22 August
432:22 August
402:23 August
278:pine tree
95:Gallipoli
24:Lone Pine
930:(Sydney)
884:(Sydney)
878:(Darwin)
843:Ballarat
837:Armadale
804:(Sydney)
792:(Sydney)
617:(Hobart)
581:(Sydney)
372:2 August
321:See also
253:Cemetery
115:Unknowns
58:Location
864:Macedon
623:(Perth)
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143:British
938:Branch
855:Hobart
834:Albany
204:Turkey
99:Turkey
852:Cowra
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349:Notes
227:ANZAC
196:Anzac
186:is a
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