Anzac day 2020

April 25th is Anzac day, the day on which the Australians and New Zealanders remember their war dead. 

This photograph, taken in 2008,  shows the the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux on the Somme in France. The memorial lists on its walls 10,773 names of soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force with no known grave who were killed between 1916, when Australian forces arrived in France and Belgium, and the end of the war. 

Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial consists of a tower set within the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery where 2,100 servicemen are buried, 600 of whom are still unidentified.

The extra is a tribute left by an Australian visitor in the small cabinet containing the list of burial locations in the cemetery.