Unknown Australian soldiers killed in battles of Amiens and Kokoda identified
Two Australian soldiers who died in 1918 and 1942 have been identified by the Australian Army's Unrecovered War Casualties team. The soldiers, previously buried as 'unknown,' will now have their names and units officially marked on their headstones.
Why it matters
The identification provides closure to the families of fallen soldiers and honors the commitment to remembering those who served in past conflicts.
One of the soldiers identified fought with the 39th Infantry Battalion on the Kokoda Track. ( Supplied: Australian War Memorial )
Two Australian soldiers have been identified after their deaths in 1918 and 1942.
Both soldiers lay in graves marked "unknown Australian" until the Australian Army's Unrecovered War Casualties team was able to identify them.
Headstones bearing the names, ranks and unit details of the soldiers will be installed.
Link copied Share Share article A lot separates the stories of two Australian soldiers who died two decades apart in wars on opposite sides of the world, but there are some remarkable parallels.
Both were killed in action on the same date and both lay in graves marked "Unknown Australian", their families never knowing what became of them.
Now the men have been identified, one more than a century after he was killed.
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