Gallipoli

About 70 lone pine trees have been planted in Geraldton as part of a unique project to grow living memorials for local soldiers who died in World War I.

The 70 remaining lone pine trees will be planted at the memorial in the coming years. Nursery volunteers Trevor Morrison and David Hoare have been involved in the lone pine tree project since the beginning. The lone pine outside the Binnu Primary School was planted in 1968 by Gallipoli veteran and local farmer Archie Henville. For the past four years, volunteers from a Geraldton Community Nursery have been cultivating the saplings from seeds collected from a lone pine in Binnu, about 88 kilometres north of Geraldton, a descendant of the solitary pine in Gallipoli. The saplings have been planted at the World War I memorial at the Leonard T Green Memorial Park in Geraldton. - 189 descendants of the Gallipoli lone pine will be planted at a memorial

Travelers from Australia and New Zealand joined Turkish and other nations' dignitaries at the former World War I battlefields at Gallipoli for a solemn ...

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Peltophorum flower. ... I have always been fascinated by the history of plants, and the story of the Lone Pine or Gallipoli Pine is part of Australian folklore, ...

The Peltophorum Trees that line the railway side Lakes Creek Road have a historic tie to our Anzacs. Planted in the 1950s the Peltophorum Trees form part of a memorial to Lakes Creek meatworks employees who served in the two world wars. If an Avenue were planted with a tree for every person lost in service, at a spacing of 25-30m on each side of the road, the Avenues would stretch unbroken for 1600km. One was planted in Wattle Park, Melbourne, one at the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance, one at the Soldiers Memorial Hall at The Sisters, and the last one was planted at the Warnambool Gardens. In 1990, two trees descended from the original pines were taken back to Gallipoli by veterans who attended the memorial service for the 75th anniversary of the battle of Lone Pine. She presented one to the town of Inverell, and the second was planted at the Australian War Memorial some years later, and it now stands at over 20m in height. I have always been fascinated by the history of plants, and the story of the Lone Pine or Gallipoli Pine is part of Australian folklore, but what was the story of the lone pine?

They are Australian Army Bugler Isaac White and Raynor Martin from the New Zealand Army. Mr Martin's 99-year-old grandmother gave him his great-grandfather's ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of both the Battle of the Coral Sea and the brutal Kokoda Track campaign. Meanwhile, on the eve of Anzac Day, a poignant memorial was held in Sydney on Sunday for two of the pivotal battles in the Pacific during World War II. "I actually had them blessed at Anzac Cove the other day and played a little sunset for him," he said.

COVID-19 has stolen the Anzac Day show at Gallipoli for two years and now commemorations have returned.

The 107th anniversary of the Çanakkale Land Battles, an important chapter in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I, was marked on Sunday in the eponymous...

The Gallipoli landings marked the start of a fierce battle that lasted for eight months. His marching order, “I don’t order you to fight, I order you to die,” is viewed as a symbol of Turkish patriotism in the face of invading forces and a reflection of the determination of the nation which was to emerge following the Çanakkale victory with the War of Independence, under his command. “Zouaves (light-infantry corps) and riflemen from Senegal, Algeria, legionnaires, 10,000 French and colonial soldiers fell in the front at Gallipoli,” Boulogne said. Only one out of the 17 French soldiers, Cpl. Paul Roman, of the 1st Engineers Regiment, has been formally identified. The memorial saw a large turnout of visitors on Sunday, with people praying for the souls of fallen soldiers. Col. Philippe Boulogne paid tribute to soldiers who “came to defend their homeland on this distant land, the scene of one of the most tragic episodes in our history” at the handing-over ceremony. On the second day, a large-scale event, including a dawn service, is held at Anzac Cove, named after the troops from Australia and New Zealand who died in the battles. Young volunteers from across the country are joining the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) walk every day, retracing the footsteps of the infantry regiment to Chunuk Bair (Conkbayırı) under the orders of Lt. Col. Mustafa Kemal. The Ottoman officer, who went on to establish the Republic of Turkey, earned his military reputation in Çanakkale when he ordered the regiment to higher ground to stave off the Anzac advance. Ceremonies were scheduled to be held throughout the day at cemeteries housing thousands of soldiers who died fighting one another. Ceremonies were held at the Martyrs’ Memorial, the French cemetery and the Helles Memorial, a Commonwealth war memorial site in Çanakkale. A historic castle that was used as a gun repair workshop by the Ottoman army during the battle was also set to reopen as part of ceremonies. Representatives of countries that were part of the Allied forces commemorated the fallen at their burial spots, close to where the Turkish soldiers they died fighting were laid to rest. Elsewhere, soldiers from a legendary regiment were remembered in their final resting place.