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Thirty years ago the Unknown Australian Soldier came home. It was a significant event for Australia, and also in the lives of the Memorial staff and Army servicemen and servicewomen who undertook this solemn and complex task. From the former Memorial Director Brendon Kelson, to Rob Comb, the WW1 veteran who cast soil from the battlefields of France into the Tomb, the entombment of Australia’s Unknown Soldier was an incredible undertaking drawing together French and Australian civilians, and Australian civilians and soldiers, during an unprecedented event in Australian history.  

This short film draws on the memories of former Defence Guard and Memorial staff, with rarely seen photographs taken in France, Old Parliament House, and the Memorial on Remembrance Day 1993 and footage courtesy of the ABC.