Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial

Collected-016 Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier


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In 1993, the remains of a WWI Australian soldier were brought home from the battlefields of France and laid to rest in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial. In Episode 16 of Collected, Louise Maher discovers the history of the Unknown Soldier, meets the tomb's caretaker and hears the story of the pigeon determined to share this sacred space by building a nest of poppies.

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