Gallipoli and Lone Pine Memorial Garden

"Gallipoli Memorial Garden
Commemorating the service and sacrifice of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in the Gallipoli Campaign 25 April- 20 December 1915"
A terrain map shows details of the Gallipoli campaign and shoes key battlefield locations.
The garden contains a Turkish Red Pine pine (Pinus Brutia) a direct descendant of the 'Lone Pine' in Gallipoli. Sergeant Thomas Keith McDowell, 23rd Battalion A.I.F., carried a seed pod back from the battlefield. A sapling grown from the seeds was planted in 1933 but succumbed to a fungal disease and did its successor. This third descendant was planted in 2016. The wood from the two previous trees has been turned into a boardroom table and guitar which are now in the Shrine.
The Battle of Lone Pine was one of the most fiercest in Gallipoli Campaign in which Australians won 7 Victoria Crosses but suffered around 2300 casualties, whilst the Turkish forces suffered more than 6,000 casualties.

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Source

• Text: Sharky Ward
• Photos: Anthony (Sharky) Ward (1), Anthony (Sharky) Ward (2, 3, 4)