Lone Pine Peace Park and Handshake for Peace Memorial, Leura

Smaller bushrock, plaque

His Excellency, Mr Reha Keskintepe

Ambassador of Turkey

dedicated this reserve as the Lone Pine Peace Park on 18 April, 2015.

This dedication coincided with

The Great Gathering of Peace, Friendship and

Understanding,

in Istanbul on the same day,

marking the centenary of the Gallipoli

Campaign of WW1

and wishing for peace across all nations.

Part of the Global International Institute for Peace through Tourism

& SKAL International Peace Parks

Handshake memorial, right plaque

Those heroes that shed their blood and lost

their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a

friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There

is no difference between the Johnnies and the

Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here

in this country of ours ...

You, the mothers who sent their sons from

faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your

sons are now lying in our bosom and are in

peace. After having lost their lives on this land

they have become our sons as well.

ATATURK, 1934

Handshake memorial, left plaque

[text from right side plaque in Turkish]

ATATURK, 1934

Handshake memorial, bottom plaque

LONE PINE HANDSHAKE FOR PEACE

18th April 2015

His Excellency Mr Reha Keskintepe Ambassador of Turkey

Mr Brian Turner RFD President Katoomba R.S.L.

Mr Allan Byrnes President Central Blue Rotary

Mr Phil Hammon, Mr Tom Colless, Benefactors

In the presence of

Mr Mark Greenhill Mayor Blue Mountains City Council

Assembled Local School Students & Residents.

[logos: the Australian Government; Republic of Turkey Embassy; RSL Australia; Blue Mountains City Council; Rotary International Central Blue]

Lone Pine plaque

Story of the Lone Pine

This tree was grown from a seed descendent

from the Pine Tree on Lone Pine Hill, Gallipoli

during World War 1. Cones were brought home

by surviving diggers and family and friends.

This tree was donated by Mrs. Carol Taylor of

Wellington, NSW. It was planted by the

Mayor, Cl. Jim Angel and witnessed by the

Blue Mountains Histroical Society and the

Leura Bush Care Group.

28th November 2004.