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	Bravery Awards at Gallipoli \| The Battle of Lone Pine
		During the days of the Battle of the Landing, 25 April to 3 May, this area was the scene of a fierce struggle as the Anzacs tried to push inland and then settled for establishing a line on the seaward side of the plateau against Turkish counter-attacks.
		Given the losses and the savagery experienced at Lone Pine during that battle, it is something of a shock to realise that it was called a ‘demonstration’ or a ‘feint’.
		This was the battle context for the award to seven Anzacs during this period of the Victoria Cross.
	www.anzacsite.gov.au /5environment/vc/lonepine.html (1706 words)

	Battle of Lone Pine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though a victory for the Australians, the wider repercussions of the attack at Lone Pine weighed heavily on the outcome at Chunuk Bair.
		Seven Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross at Lone Pine, including Corporal William Dunstan, who after the war became the general manager of Keith Murdoch's newspaper The Herald in Melbourne.
		Memorial "Lone Pine" trees have been planted in Australia, New Zealand and Gallipoli to commemorate the battle and the Gallipoli campaign in general.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Lone_Pine (812 words)

	Battle of Gallipoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the Third Battle of Krithia on June 4 all thought of a decisive breakthrough was gone and the plans for battle had reverted to trench warfare with objectives being measured in hundreds of metres.
		At Anzac, an attack on the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine by the infantry brigades of the Australian 1st Division was a rare victory for the Anzacs.
		Defeat at the Battle of Romani marked the end of that ambition and for the remainder of the war the British were on the offensive in the Middle East.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Gallipoli (4800 words)

	Lone Pine Memorial, Anzac, Gallipoli
		The single pine tree is a direct descendent of the original "Lone Pine", cultivated in Australia from seeds of the original and returned many years later.
		The Lone Pine Memorial is at the east end of Lone Pine Cemetery, which stands on the plateau at the top of Victoria Gully, and is located on the road from Gaba Tepe to Chunuk Bair.
		Lone Pine was a strategically important plateau in the southern part of Anzac which was briefly in the hands of Australian forces following the landings on 25 April.
	www.diggerhistory2.info /graveyards/pages/anzac/anzac08-lone-pine-m.htm (884 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battle of Gallipoli
		Battle of Sari Bair Conflict First World War Date 6–29 August 1915 Place Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey Result Turkish victory The Battle of Sari Bair, also known as the August Offensive, was the last attempt made by the British to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from Turkey during World...
		Battle of Lone Pine Conflict First World War Date 6–12 August 1915 Place Anzac, Gallipoli, Turkey Result Australian victory Prelude The Lone Pine battlefield, named for a solitary Turkish Pine that stood there at the start of the fighting, was situated about the centre of the eastern line of...
		The Battle of Chunuk Bair was a World War I battle fought between the Turkish defenders and troops of New Zealand and Britain on Turkeys Gallipoli peninsula in August 1915.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Gallipoli (1576 words)

	Gallipoli (battle) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the Third Battle of Krithia on June 4 all thought of a decisive breakthrough was gone and the plans for battle had reverted totrench warfare with objectives being measured in hundreds of metres.
		At Anzac, an attack on the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine by the infantry brigades of the Australian 1st Division was arare victory for the Anzacs.
		Defeat at the Battle ofRomani marked the end of that ambition and for the remainder of the war the British were on the offensive in the MiddleEast.
	www.therfcc.org /gallipoli-battle--197618.html (3708 words)

	Battle of Lone Pine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Lone Pine which took place during the Gallipoli campaign was the only successful Australian attack against the Turkish trenches within the original perimeter of Anzac battlefield and yet it was merely diversion to draw attention from the main of August 6 against the Sari Bair peaks of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.
		The Lone Pine battlefield named for a Turkish Pine that stood there at the start the fighting was situated about the centre the eastern line of the Anzac trenches a rise known as '400 Plateau' that Bolton's Ridge to the south with the along the east side of Monash Valley to the north.
		Though a victory for the Australians the repercussions of the attack at Lone Pine heavily on the outcome at Chunuk Bair.
	www.freeglossary.com /Battle_of_Lone_Pine (926 words)

	Battle of Sari Bair (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Sari Bair, also known as the August Offensive, was the final attempt made by the British to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman Empire during First World War.
		To distract the Turks from the impending offensive, on 6 August, at 5.30 p.m., an attack was made at Lone Pine by the infantry brigades of the Australian 1st Division.
		The Battle of Hill 60 lasted for eight days and while the summit of the hill was eventually reached, the Allies were unable to completely dislodge the Turkish defenders.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Battle_of_Sari_Bair.htm (2084 words)

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	City of Melbourne - Trees and wildlife - Significant trees
		The Gallipoli Pine or Lone Pine Pinus brutia commonly known as Aleppo Pine was planted in the Shrine Reserve in 1933.
		Lone Pine or Plateau 400 was the scene of some of the fiercest hand to hand combat by Australians in World War 1.
		The Plateau was distinguished by a solitary pine that bore silent witness to the heroism and tenacity of the Australians who fought there.
	www.melbourne.vic.gov.au /info.cfm?top=26&pg=1749 (451 words)

	Learn more about List of battles 1901-2000 in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		1915 Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar - Turkish assimilation of Armenians
		1942 Battle of Dieppe August 19 - "Operation Jubilee" was an Allied attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe in France.
		1944 Battle of Peleliu September 17 - A fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the western Pacific.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_battles_1901_2000.html (2247 words)

	Governor General of Australia ~ Speeches
		Lone Pine is a cemetery, a memorial and a battlefield.
		The Battle of Lone Pine was a diversionary operation intended to shift focus away from the planned Allied landings at Suvla Bay on 6 August 1915.
		But from Lone Pine and the broader canvas of the Gallipoli campaign came two powerful and enduring positives: for Australia, the birth of a proud national ethos and for Turkey, the rise of a great military commander and the father of the modern Republic of Turkey in Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
	www.gg.gov.au /governorgeneral/speech.php?id=110 (1033 words)

	The Anzac Walk - Lone Pine
		Lone Pine was a strong and important position to the Turks.
		Lone Pine was a battle of bombs, bullets and bayonets fought to defend sandbag walls built by both sides to block up a trench at the forward most point of the advance or counter attack.
		All of this occurred in the vicinity of the Lone Pine Memorial.
	www.anzacsite.gov.au /2visiting/walk_08lonepine.html (3336 words)

	Battle of Gallipoli Encyclopedia Article @ PriceOfFreedom.com (Price of Freedom) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Gallipoli took place on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli from April 1915 to January 1916 during the First World War.
		The Ottoman Empire had been dismissed by Tsar Nicholas I of Russia as "the sick man of Europe" but after victory over the Allies at Gallipoli, Turkey's visions of the empire were renewed.
		After the evacuation, Mustafa Kemal supposedly said, "We have avenged Troy," referring to the sack of that legendary city during the Trojan War.
	www.priceoffreedom.com /encyclopedia/Battle_of_Gallipoli (4337 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Lone Pine, 1915
		The Battle of Lone Pine, along with the Battle of Sari Bair, was planned by Allied regional Commander-in-Chief Sir Ian Hamilton as a diversionary operation intended to shift focus away from the planned Allied landings at Suvla Bay on 6 August 1915.
		Seven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the Australian force as a consequence of fighting at Lone Pine.
		Unfortunately for the Allies the attack upon Line Pine proved far less diversionary than intended, for the Turkish reserves drafted in to defend Lone Pine were subsequently better placed to rush to the Sari Bair range once its importance became clearer.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/lonepine.htm (431 words)

	Battle of Gallipoli - The Jiggies Reference Guide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Gallipoli took place on the Turkish peninsula of Gallipoli in World War I during 1915.
		In Turkey the campaign is known as the Battle of Çanakkale.
		Amongst the generals, Gallipoli marked the end for Hamilton and Stopford but Hunter-Weston was granted another opportunity to bleed the VIII Corps on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
	www.jiggies.com /reference/Battle_of_Gallipoli (3955 words)

	BUILDING VIRTUAL BRIDGES - Malta and Australia
		Lone Pine in Turkey, which is he second important place for Australians after the Anzac Cove, took its name from a single pine tree rising among the bushes.
		Lone Pine was the stage for fierce battles between Australian and Turkish and troops who named it "Bloody Range".
		The details of this fierce battle was revealed when the region was visited by the members of Historical Mission who discovered the bones, uniform pieces, bronze numbers belonging to Australin soldiers fighting at Lone Pine.
	www.geocities.com /f_scicluna/lone.html (860 words)

	Battle of Sari Bair - InformationBlast
		The Battle of Sari Bair, also known as the August Offensive, was the last attempt made by the British to seize control of the Gallipoli peninsula from Turkey during World War I.
		The Battle of Gallipoli had raged on two fronts, Anzac and Helles, for three months since the invasion of April 25.
		To distract the Turks from the impending offensive, on August 6, at 5.30 pm, an attack was made at Lone Pine by the infantry brigades of the Australian 1st Division.
	www.informationblast.com /Battle_of_Sari_Bair.html (2579 words)

	Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
		The Lone Pine Memorial is at the east end of Lone Pine Cemetery.
		Lone Pine was a strategically important plateau in the southern part of Anzac which was briefly in the hands of Australian forces following the landings on 25 April.
		The original small battle cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when scattered graves were brought in from the neighbourhood, and from Brown's Dip North and South Cemeteries, which were behind the Australian trenches of April-August 1915.
	ww1cemeteries.com /other_cemeteries_ext/lone_pine_mem_turkey.htm (596 words)

	Mapping Gallipoli: Lone Pine
		This plan shows the trenches at Lone Pine in late August 1915 and their connection to the position known as “the Pimple”.
		The attack on the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine began on 6 August.
		Lone Pine was one of the Turks’ strongest positions.
	www.awm.gov.au /gmaps/trench/lonepine.asp (505 words)

	Battle of Krithia Vineyard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Battle of Krithia Vineyard was intended as a minor British action at Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula to divert attention from the launch of the August Offensive.
		His replacement Lieutenant General Francis Davies in early August but had not yet command of the corps when a series diversions were due to be launched from and Helles to divert Turkish attention from the planned landing at and break out from Anzac.
		As for the other diversion at Lone Pine the attack failed to fulfil its of tying down the Turkish reinforcements away the main offensive.
	www.freeglossary.com /Battle_of_Krithia_Vineyard (842 words)

	Artillery Encyclopedia Article @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first documented record of artillery with gunpower used on the battle field is on January 28, 1132.
		Artillery could no longer be deployed in the battle line, the large crews and stocks of ammunition were vulnerable to rifle fire, but had to either become smaller, lighter, more mobile and stay with the troops or get much further away.
		A British 60-pounder (5 inch) gun at full recoil, in action during the Battle of Gallipoli, 1915.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Artillery (2782 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Gallipoli by John Masefield
		This, the attack on the Turk fort at Lone Pine, in the southern half of the Anzac front, was designed to keep large bodies of Turks from reinforcing their right, on Sari Bair, where the decisive blow was to be struck.
		When the sun set upon this battle at Lone Pine on that first evening of the 6th of August, many thousands of brave men fell in for the main battle, which was to strew their glorious bodies in the chasms of the Sari Bair, where none but the crows would ever find them.
		At Helles they were pressed, at Lone Pine they were threatened at the heart, under Koja Chemen the knife point was touching the heart, and at Suvla was the new strength to drive the knife point home and begin the end of the war.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=masefield&book=gallipoli&story=assault (9038 words)

	The Battle of Lone Pine
		Lone Pine was one of the three attacks planned in order to create a diversion for a British landing in Suvla Bay, and was carried out by the 1st Division, which consisted of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Brigades.
		During the attack, many men ran over the top of the Lone Pine trenches to discover massive amounts of Turkish reinforcements waiting in the depression behind the font line.
		In 1920 these bodies were found and were commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial dedicated to the missing.
	www.macknortshs.qld.edu.au /ANZAC/battle_of_lone_pine.htm (343 words)

	Ataturk Today.com [ This Day in History August 6 - Atatürk Günlüğü Ağustos 6 ]
		Helles: Battle of Krithia Vineyard diversion commences with an attack by the 88th Brigade of the British 29th Division.
		Anzac: Battle of Lone Pine diversion commences at 6.00 p.m.
		The Lone Pine operation was planned as a diversion to draw Turkish reserves away from a major British attack to be launched at the northern end of the Australian and New Zealand position on Gallipoli.
	www.ataturktoday.com /AtaturkGunlugu/AgustosAugust/6.htm (561 words)

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