NamePeace Grove Lone Pine TreeTypeFloraGeolocation[1] Source SHI NSWDescriptionThis tree has historic associations with Legacy in Peace Grove (Peace Grove is adjacent to the former Warilla Council Chambers) and adds significantly visually and historically to the local environment.
Historically linked to the "Aleppo Pine" (Pinus halepensis) in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial which was planted by HRH The Duke of Gloucester on 24 October 1934. It bears the following inscription: "After the capture of the Lone Pine ridge in Gallipoli (6 August 1915), an Australian soldier who had taken part in the attack, in which his brother was killed, found a cone on one of the branches used by the Turks as overhead cover for their trenches, and sent it to his mother. From seed shed by it she raised the tree, which she presented to be planted in the War Memorial grounds in honour of her own and others' sons who fell at Lone Pine."
The Lone Pine tree at the Peace Grove Warilla was planted by local Legacy representative, Nell Hogan from Albion Park.