Last Post Ceremony, 11 November 2013

At the Last Post Ceremony on 11 November 2013, Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG read the poignant eulogy for the Unknown Australian Soldier. The eulogy will now be read at the Last Post ceremony each year on Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day (11 November) marks the anniversary of the armistice which ended the First World War (1914--18). Each year Australians observe one minute silence at 11 am on 11 November, in memory of those who died or suffered in all wars and armed conflicts. 11 November 2013 was not only the 95th anniversary of the armistice on 11 November 1918 which ended the First World War, but also the 20th anniversary of the reinterment of the Unknown Australian Soldier in the Australian War Memorial's Hall of Memory. (PAFU2013 126 01 )