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CWGC: Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey

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  • New Zealand War Graves Project.
    Pte. William John Pearmain (1871 - 1915)
    William John Pearmain was born at West Row in the Forest Heath district of Suffolk in England on 21 October 1871. His parents were John William Seaber Pearmain and Mary Ann Pearmain (nee Myhill) who ha...
  • Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19150708-39-01.
    Sgt. Gordon Hart Whyte (1880 - 1915)
    Gordon Hart Whyte was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 25 December 1880 (reg. 1881/140). He was the son of James Whyte and Jane Johnstone Whyte (Wright) who had married in New Zealand on 30 April 1874...
  • Auckland Weekly News.
    Pte. James Scanlan (1883 - 1915)
    James Scanlan (often incorrectly spelt Scanlon) was born at Dublin in County Dublin, Ireland on 20 June 1883. His parents were James Scanlan and Sarah Scanlan. According to the 1901 Census of Ireland, ...
  • Evening Star (14 August 1915, p. 1).
    Pte. Bertram Allan (1886 - 1915)
    Bertram Allan is said to have been born at Dunedin in the Otago region of New Zealand's South Island on 13 August 1886. His parents have not yet been located [although a Bertie Lazarus Allan was born i...
  • Ferdinand William Erskine (c.1886 - 1915)
    Service Number: 2158 Enlisted: Not yet discovered Last Rank: Private Last Unit: 6th Infantry Battalion Born: Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa, date not yet discovered Home Town: Melbourne, Mel...

The LONE PINE MEMORIAL stands on the site of the fiercest fighting at Lone Pine and overlooks the whole front line of May 1915. It commemorates more than 4,900 Australian and New Zealand servicemen who died in the Anzac area - the New Zealanders prior to the fighting in August 1915 - whose graves are not known. Others named on the memorial died at sea and were buried in Gallipoli waters. Source: http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/78500/LONE%20PINE%20ME...



See WW1 Cemeteries - Lone Pine Memorial - includes a gallery of some remembered.