The AIF Project

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 3 August 1915.

Wounded in action, 9 August 1915 (shell wound, head), and admitted to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station.

Also reported 'wounded and missing', 9 August 1915.

Died of wounds, 9 August 1915.

Lt D.E. WEBSTER stated, 2 April 1916: 'Smith was one of my own men and I was standing next to him on Braund's Hill when he was hit in the forehead by a piece of high-explosive. He was carried down to the beach and I know he was alive all the next day, but cannot say what happened to him after that. The opinion of most of his comrades is that he died on the Hospital Ship.'

Fate determined as 'died of wounds' by Court of Enquiry held in the field near Martinpuis, France, 10 February 1917.