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'Surprisingly emotional': Australians mark the Armistice at the Western Front

Polygon Wood, Belgium

Polygon Wood, Belgium Source: SBS

Hundreds of Australians have travelled to the battlefields of the Western Front in World War One to pay their respects to relatives who fought there.



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