Tree dedication rooted in remembrance: Mosman Park RSL

“It’s another great chapter in the history of recognising service for this country,” Mosman Park RSL president Kevin Poynton, a former army officer, said.

After World War I, Lance Corporal Benjamin Smith brought the Gallipoli pine’s seeds to Australia, from which his mother grew seedlings that decades later produced the tree which former Mosman Park RSL president Ken Walker (98) planted in 2006.

Mr Poynton said the tree was an enduring symbol of courage and sacrifice in the centenary of the Galipolli conflict.