Adelaide Lone Pine Memorial
Details
| Location | North Terrace / Kintore Avenue, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Type | memorial_planting |
| Description | Pine tree. Located behind the South Australian National War Memorial. A bronze plaque affixed on an angled top cement block |
| Built | Not yet discovered |
| Opened | Not yet discovered |
| Inscription | Plaque: Insignia of the AIFTHIS PINE IS A SEEDLING RELATED TO THE ORIGINALLONE PINE ON GALLIPOLI AND WAS PLANTED TOCOMMEMORATE THE BRAVE DEEDS AND SACRIFICESOF THE ANZACS THE BATTLE OF LONE PINE
AT 4.30 A.M. ON AUGUST 6, 1915, AN OFFICER BLEW A WHISTLE AND THE AUSTRALIANS CHARGED FROM THEIR TRENCHES INTO A CLOUD OF SHRAPNEL AND A TORRENT OF BULLETS. SOME FELL BEFORE THEY CLEARED THEIR PARAPETS, OTHERS WITHIN A FEW STRIDES. LONE PINE WAS CAPTURED AND REINFORCED BUT THE A.I.F. LOSSES WERE EXTREMELY HIGH. MORE THAN 2,000 AUSTRALIANS WERE KILLED OR WOUNDED IN THIS SINGLE ENGAGEMENT, MOST OF THEM IN HAND -TO- HAND FIGHTING. HEAVIER THAN ANY OTHER IN WHICH THE AUSTRALIANS WERE TO TAKE PART THROUGHOUT THE GREAT WAR. OF THE NINE VICTORIA CROSSES AWARDED TO AUSTRALIANS ON GALLIPOLI SEVEN WERE WON AT LONE PINE
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE" |
| Condition | MAINTAINED BY: Adelaide City Council. PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil |
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