Australia’s War Memorial Oak: progeny planted in France
Planted to perpetually remind us of the very sombre beginning of WW1 in Europe, progeny of this original, special tree (image on left), now feature
Planted to perpetually remind us of the very sombre beginning of WW1 in Europe, progeny of this original, special tree (image on left), now feature
Australia’s War Memorial Oak (Quercus robur), the very first known WW1 commemorative tree to be planted by any of the allied nations, anywhere in the
In 1915 a wounded digger from Adelaide was repatriated to the Army Hospital at Keswick. He brought back with him a small rosemary bush dug
Small prickly oak trees, known in Australia as Gallipoli Oaks, grow along the ridges and valleys of the Gallipoli peninsula. Acorns were collected by several soldiers during
TREENET’s Avenues of Honour project is a national initiative to document, preserve, promote and reinstate the original Avenues of Honour and to establish new commemorative trees, comemmorating Australia’s war service encompasing plantings from Boer War, WW1, WW2 and all subsequent conflicts.