The Department of Veteran Affairs estimates that more than 35 thousand Australians lost in World Wars One and Two have no known grave.

Major Barry Hampson is a returned serviceman, military historian and until recently worked with the Unrecovered War Casualties Army, a service unit dedicated to recovering lost soldiers so their stories can be told.

Barry Hampson told Luke Bradnam on 4BC Breakfast, “It’s not just putting the names back, it’s giving the identity back to an unknown Australian soldier.”

“It’s the one thing that our country deserves to give to our lost soldiers is their identity again and that’s what drives me to do the work I did for almost 10 years like it was,” Mr Hampson said.

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