http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/04/23/gallipolis-9-vcs/ Blog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:01:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/04/23/gallipolis-9-vcs/comment-page-1/#comment-2589 John Scott Palmer Wed, 06 May 2009 04:35:11 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/?p=2396#comment-2589 A very interesting summary! I have been to Gallipoli a number of times and it is always an honour and a privilege to stand at such places as Lone Pine, Courtneys and the Nek, knowing what happened there in 1915. Hill 60, Lancashire Landing, Gully Ravine and V Beach are equally poignant places to remember the brave men of both sides. Rest Gully is another place - where the field ambulances set up to take the wounded from the ridges above. Am I right in thinking the present Lone Pine was grown from the original 1934 tree that died? Or am I thinking of the tree planted in 1954 by the Queen? Grafton apparently has an avenue of Lone Pine trees grown from cones brought back after the war. A very interesting summary! I have been to Gallipoli a number of times and it is always an honour and a privilege to stand at such places as Lone Pine, Courtneys and the Nek, knowing what happened there in 1915. Hill 60, Lancashire Landing, Gully Ravine and V Beach are equally poignant places to remember the brave men of both sides. Rest Gully is another place – where the field ambulances set up to take the wounded from the ridges above. Am I right in thinking the present Lone Pine was grown from the original 1934 tree that died? Or am I thinking of the tree planted in 1954 by the Queen? Grafton apparently has an avenue of Lone Pine trees grown from cones brought back after the war.

]]> http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/04/23/gallipolis-9-vcs/comment-page-1/#comment-2517 indicommons» Blog Archive » Carnival of the Commons: around the world, and beyond Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:06:09 +0000 http://blog.awm.gov.au/awm/?p=2396#comment-2517 [...] Day across the Commons. The Australia War Memorial has an excellent tribute and a report on the Simpson Prize awarded for Anzac [...] [...] Day across the Commons. The Australia War Memorial has an excellent tribute and a report on the Simpson Prize awarded for Anzac [...]

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