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A minute's silence was observed across the nation today as Australians paused for Remembrance Day to honour our fallen soldiers. For some families, it had even greater significance as researchers have been able to confirm the identity of another eleven Australians who died in the First World War.

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00:02The nation came to a halt today.
00:12Remembering those who have given their lives in service.
00:16At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.
00:21Today marks the 108th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War.
00:27But the ceremony honoured all 103,000 Australians who have died serving, and their families.
00:33The world has gone on without your loved one in it.
00:38And yet your world stopped when they died.
00:43With a message also for those surviving soldiers forever changed by war.
00:47To those who came home from war, but left something of themselves behind, we remember you.
00:55The Prime Minister wasn't at the service, instead he paid his respects at a chapel in Singapore,
01:00and visited a museum which pays tribute to the 15,000 Australians who were Japanese prisoners of war in Changi.
01:07They showed courage, selflessness, sacrifice and mateship.
01:13The acting Prime Minister took his place at the Australian War Memorial on a day that had great personal significance.
01:19A few weeks ago I received a call from the Chief of Army to tell me that one of my
01:23relatives, Lieutenant Andrew Anderson,
01:25had been identified after more than a century of being in the Hoop Crater Cemetery.
01:30Military researchers were able to identify 11 previously unknown Australian soldiers who died in World War I.
01:37It will ensure future generations know of their service.
01:41His headstone will be changed to have his name on it, so there will be a specific place that we
01:46and our family can go to to remember him.
01:49A third of all Australians who died in World War I remain unknown, but their sacrifice will never be forgotten.
01:57A third of all Australians who died in the World War II
01:58Daniel Gilbert Reference
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