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The Lone Pine Memorial stands on the site of the fiercest fighting at Lone Pine … it commemorates more than 4900 Australian and New Zealand servicemen who died in the Anzac area (Photo: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 5, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lone Pines – descendants of the original trees from the famous World War I battlefield at Gallipoli – are to be planted at three locations in Nanango.<\/p>\n

The project has been organised by the Nanango RSL Sub-Branch.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Sub-Branch will holding a tree planting ceremony at St Patrick’s Primary School at 9:00am.<\/p>\n

This will be followed at 10:00am with a tree planting ceremony at Nanango State High School.<\/p>\n

The third tree will be planted at\u00a0Karinya Aged Care at 9:30am on Wednesday, December 19, at the annual Nanango Sub-Branch and Citizen’s Auxiliary Christmas morning tea.<\/p>\n

Opposition Leader and Member for Nanango, Deb Frecklington, will help to plant the pine alongside Karinya residents.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Nanango RSL Memorial Services Club on (07) 4163-1375.<\/p>\n

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Lone Pine’s role in Australian military history began on August 6, 1915, when\u00a0the Australian 1st Infantry Brigade launched a major offensive at Plateau 400 in Gallipoli. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The ridges, which were once covered with Aleppo pine trees, had been cleared to provide cover for the Turkish trenches leaving just one, solitary pine.<\/p>\n

This area quickly became known as Lone Pine Ridge among the allied forces.<\/p>\n

However, the Battle of Lone Pine (August 6-9) was not the first time Anzac troops had fought on the ridge.<\/p>\n

Lone Pine was first captured on the morning of the Gallipoli landings on April 25, 1915, but abandoned that evening.<\/p>\n

It was then recaptured the following day, only to be given up to the Turkish forces again that evening.<\/p>\n

After this, the Turks retained the position for the next three months, calling it Kanli Sirt (Bloody Ridge).<\/p>\n

But on August 6, the Anzacs succeeded in recapturing the enemy trenches at Lone Pine for a third time after three days of brutal fighting in which 2000 Australians and 7000 Turks lost their lives.<\/p>\n

The Allied Forces held on to Lone Pine until the evacuation in December 1915.<\/p>\n

Following the August 6 battle, Lance Corporal Benjamin Charles Smith from the 3rd Battalion AIF collected several pine cones from the branches used to cover the Turkish trenches. <\/strong><\/p>\n

He sent them home to his mother, Jane McMullin, in remembrance of his brother Mark, who died during the fighting.<\/p>\n

Mrs McMullin sowed several seeds from one of the pine cones, and successfully raised two seedlings.<\/p>\n

One of these was planted at Inverell, where both her sons had enlisted.<\/p>\n

The other was presented to the Australian War Memorial, where it was planted in the grounds.<\/p>\n

The War Memorial, in conjunction with Canberra’s Yarralumla Nursery, now produce Lone Pine seedlings that can trace their ancestry to this tree.<\/p>\n

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