Collected Episode 28: The Lone Pine
Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial
English - April 06, 2021 06:25 - 28 minutes - 65.3 MBHistory Education australianwarmemorial collected fromawhispertoabang Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Lone Pine
The magnificent Lone Pine planted at the Memorial is 1934 is a living symbol of the sacrifice of war.
It was grown by a bereaved mother from the seeds from pine cones gathered by her son at Gallipoli. Since the late 1940s, around 70,000 seedlings have been propagated from this one tree for distribution around Australia and the world.
In Episode 28 of Collected, Louise Maher visits the tree in the Memorial’s grounds, the Lone Pine diorama which dramatically recreates the battle which took its name, as well as the nursery where the seedlings are tended and a school which has proudly planted one.