| Accession Number | PAIU1993/260.16 |
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| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | |
| Maker |
McJannett, Ray |
| Place made | Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra |
| Date made | 11 November 1993 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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| Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the body of an unknown Australian ...
Description
To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the body of an unknown Australian soldier was recovered from Adelaide Cemetery near Villers-Bretonneux in France and transported to Australia. The Unknown Australian Soldier was interred in the Hall Of Memory at the Australian War Memorial on 11 November 1993. He was buried with a slouch hat and a sprig of wattle in a Tasmanian Blackwood coffin, and soil from the Pozieres battlefield was scattered in his tomb.