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The Lone Pine tree

The Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis) in the Memorial's grounds was planted by HRH The Duke of Gloucester on 24 October 1934. It bears the following inscription:

After the capture of the Lone Pine ridge in Gallipoli (6 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.

Seedlings from this tree are available from:

The Yarralumla Nursery
Banks Street
Yarralumla ACT 2600
Phone: 02-6207-2444

Photograph of a tree similar to that at Lone Pine
Photograph of a tree, said to be similar to that at Lone Pine.
AWM A04000

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