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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.
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]
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..
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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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.
At the heart of the lawsuit, which a group of 10 neighbors filed in March 2022, is the city's approval of development of a bike park within the Lone Pine Greenspace established in 2003, which the ...
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