AWM 75, Part 5 - The Lone Pine

This series of videos marks the Australian War Memorial's 75th anniversary on 11 November 2016. Produced by Max Uechtritz and edited by Alan Green. This episode features the Memorial's Senior Historian, Peter Burness, as he explains the story behind the Memorial's majestic Lone Pine.

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Damn it. Every time I watch one on these it makes me cry.

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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."

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Lest we forget

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better Australians than we have now Im afraid

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True Australians

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Herbert Henry King, Service No. 1667 4th Infantry Battalion, of Port Pirie died at Lone Pine on the 6th of August 1915. Initially Herbert was listed as missing which is not surprising since the dead piled three or four high and the reinforcements ran over them to get to the fighting. The dead Australians and Turks were either buried, stacked in heaps, thrown over the parapet, or used to block the Turkish communication trenches along with sandbags and soil. Proceedings of a court of enquiry held at Flairbax, France on 22nd April 1916 finally determined that Herbert King was Killed in action. His next of kin and mother Margaret who lived at 30 Howe Street, Jean Park, Port Pirie West was contacted by the AIF Base Records Office as late as May 1921 asking her for any details on her son’s death that might help establish his final resting place; to obviate the necessity of interring him under the heading “An Unknown Australian Soldier”. Lest We Forget