The AIF Project

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Embarked from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Force, Gallipoli, 16 May 1915.

Missing in action, 7 August 1915. Court of Enquiry, 9 August 1915, determined fate as 'killed in action, Walker's Ridge, Gallipoli, 7 August 1915 (attack at The Nek). In evidence to the Court, which found that that 'all those missing are killed in action' (3 Officers, 5 NCOs, 20 Other Ranks from the 10th Light Horse), Lt Colonel N.M. Brazier testified that he had ordered the assault on the Turkish positions,' although at this time there was a murderous hail of shrapnel, machine gun and rifle fire from the enemy, and [he] felt quite convinced few if any would return', added that 'subsequent to the assault the enemy were seen deliberately firing on the wounded'.