Anzac & Lone Pine Revisited: 1975
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This is the record of my personal pilgrimage to Anzac Cove in May 1975. There were no tour buses, no official maps and the Australian Government was actively discouraging its citizens from visiting the area because of the tense political situation between Greece and Turkey. I went anyway.
Duncan MacDonald
Duncan is an Australian currently living in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is married to Shinta Dewi Sanawiya, muse, mate, motivator and President Director of the business he founded in 1993, dMAC Group in Asia, now PT Daya MACro Dinamika.Duncan has had a passion for history since childhood. He travelled alone to Turkey in 1975 to visit ANZAC Cove, scene of Australia and New Zealand’s entry to World War I. He then worked for 5 years in London, enabling him to research the Roman Empire’s occupation of Britain and question the Arthurian legends. He has published his illustrated historical e-novels set in Ireland and Britain in the 1st-7th centuries on Smashwords. Search for 'Culann - Celtic Warrior Monk'.Duncan has also published an illustrated account of his private pilgrimage to 'Anzac Cove and Lone Pine in 1975' - Search for 'Anzac'Those interested in obtaining the latest historical information on the Battle of Waterloo, (detailing who actually defeated Napoleon) can download Duncan's illustrated version in dMAC Digest Vol 4 No 6 'Waterloo'. Also the Jakarta Journals, tracing Indonesian history over the past 2,000 years, up to granting of Independence in December 1949.Any one of Duncan's 12 'dMAC Digest Health & History' magazines, or 5 illustrated historical novels can be downloaded at Smashwords.'Britannia Bulletin #1 and #2' are the latest illustrated historical novel published by Duncan. Set in the 1st & 2nd century CE we follow the adventures of a Roman Legionary in Europe & Britain. He records the lives of the early Roman Emperors and Governors of Britannia, their initial rise to power and occasional fall from grace. Major battles are dealt with in detail.
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Anzac & Lone Pine Revisited - Duncan MacDonald
Anzac & Lone Pine - Revisited 1975
My Private Pilgrimage to Gallipoli
By
Duncan MacDonald
10 December 2013
Revised 30 November 2019
Dedicated to the Anzac, British, French and Ottoman sons who died senselessly
at Gallipoli in 1915
Copyright 2019 Duncan MacDonald
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This is the record of my personal pilgrimage to Anzac Cove in May 1975. There were no tour buses, no official maps and the Australian Government was actively discouraging its citizens from visiting the area in view of the tense political situation between Greece and Turkey. I went anyway.
Table of Contents
Map of Europe and Turkey
Map of Gallipoli Peninsular
Chapter 1 - Background
I meet an Anzac
Chapter 2 - The Journey Begins
30-April-1975 Athens
1-May-1975 - Athens
2-May-1975 - Athens
3-May-1975 Istanbul
4-May-1975 - Istanbul
5-May-1975 - Istanbul
6-May-1975 Istanbul
7-May-1975 Istanbul
Chapter 3 - to Gallipoli 8-May-1975
3.1 - Kesan
3.2- Gelibolu
3.3 - Anzac Cove
3.4 - Kemal Atatürk
3.5 - Lone Pine
Chapter 4 - on to the Greek/Turkish border
9-May-1975 Alexandroupoli
10-May-1975 Thessaloniki
11-May-1975 Corfu
Postscript
Anzac Images
About the Author
Discover other Historical Titles by Duncan MacDonald
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Map of Europe and Turkey
Map of Gallipoli Peninsular
Route taken by Duncan 8-May-1975
All maps and photos by Duncan MacDonald unless otherwise stated.
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Chapter 1 - Background
This is a record of my journey to Anzac Cove in 1975. I am writing this almost 39 years after the event, memory can be deceptive so I refer to at times to my travel diary. I might add that that was the first time I kept a diary and I find now some entries are extremely cryptic and at times my handwriting less than legible.
You may well ask why would a then 34 year old, single Australian male, decide to visit such an isolated place? Anzac Cove was not shown on any maps. I will explain:
I was raised in a small country town in northern NSW called Inverell (Gaelic for ‘Meeting place of the swans’, population 8,560). It had a rather large park near the centre of town in which was strategically located a World War 1 artillery piece. Close by was a very large (to a small boy) pine tree, which by local tradition was grown from a seed taken