The Top Ender Magazine August September 2023 Edition

THE BATTLE OF
LONE PINE
Images: Battle of Lone Pine 1 - https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C511 - Description: 1st
Battalion troops having taken 80 yards of a Turkish trench, waiting near Jacob's Trench for relief by
the 7th Battalion. Identified from left: Captain Cecil Duncan Sasse, (with eyes bandaged, later
Lieutenant Colonel, DSO and Bar); 2211 Private George Wood (with moustache and legs
crossed); 2173 Private Martin Maher (smoking pipe); 2190 Claude Wilfred Leo Pittendrigh (hands
near rifle muzzle); unidentified (in corner of frame). These men had been fighting continuously
from the beginning of the Lone Pine attack on 6 August 1915.
Battle of Lone Pine 2 Captured Trench - https://www.awmlondon.gov.au/battles/lone-pine -
Australian troops relaxing inside a captured trench at Lone Pine (AWM G01126)
One of the most famous assaults of the Gallipoli campaign, the
Battle of Lone Pine lasted four days and was originally intended
as a diversion from attempts by New Zealand and Australian
units to force a breakout from the ANZAC perimeter on the
heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.
At 5:30pm on 6 August 1915, the Australian artillery barrage lifted and from
concealed trenches in no man’s land, the 1st Australian Brigade charged
towards the Turkish trenches. The troops paused on reaching the Turkish
trenches, finding that many were covered by timber roofs. Some fired, bombed
and bayoneted from above, some found their way inside and others ran on
past to the open communications and support trenches behind.
Others advanced as far as "the Cup" which was where Turkish support units
were located and from where the Turks counter-attacked. By nightfall, most of
the enemy front line was in Australian hands and outposts had been established
in former Turkish communication trenches.
The Australian Engineers dug a safe passage across no man’s land so that
reinforcements could enter the captured positions without being exposed to
Turkish fire.
Having captured the Turkish trenches, the Australians now tried to hold what
they had taken while the Turks desperately and determinedly tried to throw the
Australians out. From nightfall on 6 August until the night of 9 August a fierce
battle ensued underground in the complex maze of Turkish tunnels. The
Australians succeeded in drawing the whole of the immediate Turkish reserve.
Extracted from AWM
Sources:
https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/bravemen/detail
https://www.awmlondon.gov.au/battles/lone-pine
6 AUG 1915 - 9 AUG 1915
VICTORIA
CROSS
RECIPIENTS
Alfred Shout
Frederick Tubb
Alexander Burton
William Dunstan
John Hamilton
Leonard Keysor
William Symons
Six Australian battalions suffered
nearly 2,300 killed and wounded
at Lone Pine. Seven Australians
were awarded the Victoria Cross,
the highest number ever
awarded to an Australian division
for one action and all from a
small stretch of ground on the
Turkish Gallipoli ridge – with four
going to a single battalion in just
24 hours.
Lone Pine Cemetery is the
location of the Memorial to the
Missing in the Anzac area of
Gallipoli and is situated on the
ground captured by the
Australians during the battle. It
commemorates 4,224
Australians who have no known
grave. There are 652 Australians
buried at Lone Pine cemetery.
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