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Lone Pine was one of the three attacks planned in order to create a diversion for a British landing in Suvla Bay. At 5:30pm on August 6th, 1915 these men attacked when the sun was at their backs, and in the Turkish eyes. By 6pm the same day the trenches were taken, but the ANZACs defended and endured the Turkish counter attacks on their former trenches for five days, eventually gaining complete control of the Lone Pine objective. During the attack, many men ran over the top of the Lone Pine trenches to discover massive numbers of Turkish reinforcements waiting in the depression behind the front line. However they never lived to tell the tale as they were killed instantly. In 1920, these bodies were found and were commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial dedicated to the missing.