Qualla: Battle of Lone Pine https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-pine en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/battle-of-lone-pine-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Lone Pine https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-pine Battle of Lone Pine: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-pine/ Photo credit Public domain. There was, before the battle, an actual lone pine. It stood on a low rise the Australian soldiers had been calling 400 Plateau, the only tree on a ridge they had been staring at since April. The Turks called the place Kanli Sırt — Bloody Ridge. The Anzacs called it Lone Pine, or sometimes the Lonesome Pine after a popular wartime song. By the afternoon of 6 August 1915, when the Australian 1st Brigade rose from their trenches and went forward, the tree itself was already a stump; Ottoman soldiers had cut it for trench timbers in the months before. What followed in those four days has become, more than any other engagement, the moment by which Australia remembers Gallipoli.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/battle-of-lone-pine-wp/sx4s-battle-of-lone-pine-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lone Pine: The Cup the maps did not show https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-pine/ Photo credit GaryBlakeley, CC BY-SA 3.0. Lieutenant General William Birdwood, who commanded the Anzac Corps, had picked the rise as a diversion to cover the main attack going up the Sari Bair range and the new landing at Suvla Bay. The Australian 1st Brigade — battalions raised in Sydney, Newcastle, the Hunter Valley — ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/battle-of-lone-pine-wp/sx4s-battle-of-lone-pine-the-cup-the-maps-did-not-show.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lone Pine: Twenty minutes https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-pine/ Photo credit GaryBlakeley, CC BY-SA 3.0. At 5:30 p.m. the men jumped off. The first surprise was the trench roof: the Ottomans had laid heavy pine logs across their front-line trenches against artillery, and the attackers had to lever the logs up or find the firing slits. Some Australians dropped through gaps and starte...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/battle-of-lone-pine-wp/sx4s-battle-of-lone-pine-twenty-minutes.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Lone Pine: Bombs in the dark https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-pine/ Photo credit GaryBlakeley, CC BY-SA 3.0. What followed was four days of trench fighting at distances of metres. With long firing arcs blocked by traverses and barricades, the men used the only weapons that worked at that range: improvised grenades — jam tins packed with explosive — bayonets, and shovels. Ottoman counter...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/battle-of-lone-pine-wp/sx4s-battle-of-lone-pine-bombs-in-the-dark.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Lone Pine: The diversion that wasn't enough https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-pine/ Photo credit Archives New Zealand from New Zealand, CC BY-SA 2.0. By the evening of 9 August, Ottoman attacks had largely stopped. The Australians had taken the position and held it. About 2,000 Australian soldiers were dead or wounded. Ottoman losses are usually estimated at 5,000 to 7,000, although precise figures for the 16th and other engag...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/4/s/battle-of-lone-pine-wp/sx4s-battle-of-lone-pine-the-diversion-that-wasnt-enough.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Lone Pine: What Anzac Day commemorates https://qualla.com/battle-of-lone-pine/ Photo credit Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0 au. After the war the Imperial War Graves Commission laid out the Lone Pine Cemetery and the Lone Pine Memorial on the ridge itself, the memorial walls listing the names of nearly 4,900 Australian and New Zealand soldiers who died in the Gallipoli campaign and have no known grave. A ...

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