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25-April-2018
25-April-2018

Photographs supplied by John Huth

The pine tree commemorates the Unknown Soldier who represents all Australians who have died in service or been killed in action in the various conflicts in which Australia has been involved.

Plans to honour an unknown Australian soldier were first put forward in the 1920s but it was not until 1993 that one was at last brought home. 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. After lying in state in King's Hall in Old Parliament House, Unknown Australian Soldier was interred in the Hall of Memory at the War Memorial in Canberra on 11 November 1993. He was buried with a bayonet and a sprig of wattle in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, and soil from the Pozières battlefield was scattered in his tomb.

The Unknown Australian Soldier represents all Australians who have been killed in war.

Location

Address:Crescent Street, Cudgen, 2487
State:NSW
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -28.263395
Long: 153.557182
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Tree
Monument Theme:Conflict
Sub-Theme:Multiple

Dedication

Front Inscription

Unknown Soldier

Source: MA
Monument details supplied by Monument Australia - www.monumentaustralia.org.au