Lonely pine tree

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Lone Pine was the name given to a solitary tree on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey that marked the site of the Battle of the Lone Pine in 1915. Pine trees planted to commemorate the Australian and New Zealand soldiers , also known in Gallipoli as "Lone Pine Trees" or "Gallipoli Pine Trees", alluding to the original tree.

The original "lonely pine"

The original "Lone Pine" was the only survivor of a group of trees felled by Turkish soldiers who used the wood and branches to cover their trenches during battle. The tree was destroyed as a result of the battle; but the pine cones that remained on the broken branches above the trenches were rescued by two Australians and brought home to Australia. The resulting seedlings were found to be Calabrian pine , sometimes considered a subspecies of Pinus halepensis ( Aleppo pine ) but usually classified as a separate species, Pinus brutia . In this respect, the term " pine " is a mistranslation of the English "pine", since in German only Pinus pinea is referred to as "pine" - in this context the term pine would be correct .

The tree in the Lonely Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli

A single pine tree was planted in Gallipoli's Lone Pine Cemetery in the 1920s to symbolize the original Lone Pine. This tree was examined by an Australian botanist in 1987 and confirmed as a stone pine ( Pinus pinea ).

Trees in australia

Lonely pine tree in Wattle Park

Soldier Thomas Keith McDowell, an Australian soldier in the 23rd Battalion who fought in Gallipoli, brought a pine cone home to Australia from the battlefield . Many years later, cone seeds were planted by his wife's aunt, Emma Gray of Grassmere, at Warrnambool, Victoria and five seedlings developed, four of which survived. These seedlings were planted in four different locations in Victoria - Wattle Park , on ( May 8, 1933 ), at the Shrine of Remembrance , on ( June 11, 1933 ), at the Soldiers Memorial Hall at The Sisters near Terang , on (May 18 , 1933 ) . June 1933 ) and in the Warrnambool Botanic Gardens on ( January 23, 1934 ).

The tree in the Shrine Reserve was planted in a formal ceremony near the northeast corner of the building by Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Savige, founder of the Melbourne Legacy.

Another soldier, Private Benjamin Smith of 3rd Battalion, also rescued a spigot from the battlefield and sent it to his mother (Mrs. McMullen) in Australia, who had lost another son in the battle. The seeds of the cone were planted by Mrs. McMullen in 1928, from which two seedlings grew. One was given to her hometown Inverell and the other sent to Canberra , where it was planted at the Australian War Memorial by Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in October 1934 .

Both Melbourne Legacy and Yarralumla Nurseries in Canberra have grown and raised numerous seedlings for years from the tree at the Shrine of Remembrance and the Australian War Memorial, which they gave to schools, veterans and other organizations across Australia .

Trees in New Zealand

The memorial trees were also planted in Taradale Cemetery and King Edward Park in Stratford , New Zealand.

credentials

  1. ^ Roger D. Spencer: Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. The identification of garden and cultivated plants . University of NSW Press, Sydney 1997, ISBN 0-86840-167-6 , Vol. 1, pp. 248-249 (2 vols. In one book)

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