This photograph of a Turkish memorial was taken at Lone Pine in March 1919 by a member of the Australian Historical Mission. According to the mission’s leader, official Australian historian Charles Bean, the monument was near the spot where a lone pine tree stood in the early days of the Gallipoli campaign. The Anzacs duly named the area ‘Lone Pine’. The Turkish memorial had been put up, as Bean was told, to mark the spot where the Turks had halted the Australian advance across the Lone Pine plateau during the Battle of Lone Pine (6-9August 1915). The monument is not there today. Bean wrote:
Obviously the Turks were very proud of their achievement. And … those who stopped the invading spearheads on Gallipoli well deserved commemoration as soldiers and patriots. [Charles Bean, Gallipoli Mission, Sydney, 1990, p.49] [AWM G01752]