Collected Episode 28: The Lone Pine
The magnificent Lone Pine planted at the Memorial in 1934 is a living symbol of the sacrifice of war.
It was grown by a bereaved mother from the seeds from pine cones gathered by her son at Gallipoli. Since the late 1940s, around 70,000 seedlings have been propagated from this one tree for distribution around Australia and the world.
In Episode 28 of Collected, Louise Maher visits the tree in the Memorial’s grounds, the Lone Pine diorama which dramatically recreates the battle which took its name, as well as the nursery where the seedlings are tended and a school which has proudly planted one.
Credits:
Presented by: Louise Maher
Produced by: Louise Maher
Interviewed:
Meleah Hampton, Historian
Tinus Ehlers, Marketing Manager, Yarralumla Nursery
Glenn McKenzie, Humanities and Social Sciences Teacher, Wanniassa School
Mya Stout, Year 10 Student, Wanniassa School
Original music: Andy Heaney, Vice Like Grip
Collection items:
Indigenous Soil Return Ceremony at the Lone Pine Tree on the grounds of the Australian War Memorial. 26 November 2015
Photograph taken by Fiona Silsby PAIU2015/210.01
This diorama depicts the attack of the Turkish position known as Lone Pine on 6 August 1915.
Australian troops in the Turkish Lone Pine trenches, captured on the afternoon of the 6 August 1915, by the AIF 1st Brigade under Brigadier-General Walker.
The Australian War Memorial, in conjunction with Yarralumla Nursery in Canberra, has a range of Lone Pine seedlings available for purchase.