Seacliff Aleppo Pine Memorial

War Memorials in Australia

Place: Seacliff, South Australia, 5049
District: Central (SA)
Orientation: Suburb of Adelaide
Location: Lucy May Drive, off Schofield Avenue
Position:
Ref: 50186

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In front of the tree is a boulder with a metal plaque.

Metal plaque on boulder
ALEPPO PINE     Insignia of Australian Military Force     PINUS HALEPENSIS
THE A.I.F. ATTACK ON AND HOLDING OF LONE PINE RIDGE
AFTER SEVERE FIGHTING, MEMBERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE ON 6 AUGUST 1915 TOOK
THE HIGH AND STRATEGIC LONE PINE RIDGE. SEVERAL DAYS OF EXTREMELY HEAVY TURKISH
COUNTER-ATTACKING FOLLOWED. OVER 2,000 AND 7,000 AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS WERE
KILLED. SEVEN AUSTRALIANS WERE AWARDED THE VICTORIA CROSS.

AN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER WHO TOOK PART IN THE ACTION, IN WHICH HIS BROTHER WAS KILLED,
TOOK A CONE FROM ONE OF THE PINE TREE LOGS USED BY THE TURKS AS OVERHEAD COVER FOR
THEIR TRENCHES. HE LATER SENT IT TO HIS MOTHER.

FROM A SEED SHED BY THIS CONE SHE GREW A SEEDLING PINE TREE. IN 1934 THE DUKE OF
    GLOUCESTER PLANTED THIS TREE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL, CANBERRA,
IN MEMORY OF THE AUSTRALIANS WHO FELL AT LONE PINE.

THE TREE GROWING HERE WAS RAISED FROM SEED TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL TREE IN CANBERRA.
IT WAS PLANTED ON REMEMBRANCE DAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1999, IN MEMORY OF ALL PERSONS WHO
SERVED IN DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA, IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE.

LEST WE FORGET

B. J. NADILO, MAYOR                    DR. ANDREW SOUTHCOTT                       T. WHITELAW, PRESIDENT
CITY OF HOLDFAST BAY                FEDERAL MEMBER FOR BOOTHBY              BRIGHTON SUB-BRANCH
                                                                                                                          S.A. BRANCH
                                                                                                                        RETURNED SERVICES LEAGUE

Information current to October 2004

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