GALLIPOLI-LONE PINE-THE NEK-JOHNSTON'S JOLLY

This commemorates the compassion and bravery of a giant Turkish soldier who could no longer bear the cries of a badly wounded British officer lying in no man's land.He raised a white flag, left his trench and carried the wounded man and deposited him at the edge of the allied trench.Actions like this on both sides earned mutual respect.When trenches were within throwing range they exchanged coffee, dates, cigarettes and bully beef. On one occasion the Turks showed their more refined tastes by asking for cigarettes but no more of that bully beef.
Dense thickets of scrub barring the uphill way-good for defence, hell for attackers. Wonder to what extent artillery and naval gun fire had set it alight and cleared it?
walking track up to lone Pine. Found the bones of a joint on the washed out track bed-whether human or animal I could not tell-seemed best to leave it lie
The terrain they had to climb up through on their charge to the ridge. No wonder so many arrived too exhausted to fight.Water had to be carried up to them by mule or manpower and such was the degree of thirst-some water bags arrived empty as the carriers had pierced them to slake their own thirsts.
Names of Australian Light horsemen ( mostly from WA) who died in the futile charge at the nek

Turkish trench lines amongst the pine trees at Lone Pine


Johnston's Jolly cemetery-named after an officer who developed the ruse of bombarding the turkish trenches at night after subjecting them to direct searchlight. The Turkish troops learned to leave the trenches until the firing had stopped but were caught napping when the australian troops charged and took their trenches under cover of one of these staged bombardments.