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  2. Trench map - Wikipedia

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    A map of trenches in the Lone Pine area of the Allied beachhead in Galipoli as of August 1915. A trench map shows trenches dug for use in war. This article refers mainly to those produced by the British during the Great War, 1914–1918 although other participants made or used them..

  3. File:Southern Trench in Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 8 August 1915 ...

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    The August Offensive opened on 6 August 1915 with an Australian attack on Lone Pine, at the southern end of the Anzac sector at Gallipoli. Four days of savage fighting secured the area for the Australians but at a heavy price. Of the Australian force that launched the attack at Lone Pine, almost half became casualties.

  4. Battle of Lone Pine - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the battle, isolated fighting around Lone Pine had begun early in the Gallipoli campaign. At around 7:00 a.m. on the first day of the Australian and New Zealand landings at Anzac Cove, 25 April 1915, elements of the Australian force had pushed through to Lone Pine in an effort to destroy an Ottoman artillery battery that had been firing down upon the landing beach.

  5. Gallipoli Peninsula Historical Site - Wikipedia

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    Originally, they were meant to be reserve trenches, but after the August Offensive and the Australian advance on the main front lines, the Lone Pine trenches took their place. In a preliminary archaeological survey of the battlefield, the site was found to have clear complex trench systems still in place with minimal erosion and backfilling. [18]

  6. Gallipoli campaign - Wikipedia

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    At Anzac, the diversionary Battle of Lone Pine, led by the Australian 1st Infantry Brigade, captured the main Ottoman trench line and diverted Ottoman forces but the attacks at Chunuk Bair and Hill 971 failed. [83] [164] [165] Captain Leslie Morshead in a trench at Lone Pine after the battle, looking at Australian and Ottoman dead on the parapet

  7. Battle of the Nek - Wikipedia

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    A narrow saddle, the Nek connected the Australian and New Zealand trenches on Walker's Ridge at a plateau designated as "Russell's Top" (known as Yuksek Sirt to the Ottomans) [1] to the knoll called "Baby 700" [2] (Kilic Bayir), [3] on which the Ottoman defenders were entrenched in what the historian Chris Coulthard-Clark describes as "the strongest position at Anzac". [4]

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  9. Third attack on Anzac Cove - Wikipedia

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    To the immediate south, opposite Lone Pine, the Australian 2nd and 3rd battalions had been digging a new trench into no man's land. It was intended to provide a better firing position and, starting from both battalions' lines, headed into no man's land at an angle of forty-five degrees to the old line.