An Indigenous Anzac is set to be honoured at the Australian War Memorial to mark the culmination of National Reconciliation Week.
Tuesday's Last Post Ceremony will commemorate the service and sacrifice of Private John Makinson, a Wiradjuri man from Dubbo
One of ten children born to John and Catherine Makinson, Private Makinson was one of six to reach adulthood, leaving him the youngest surviving sibling.
After his father and oldest brother left Dubbo to work in Walgett in October 1896, Private Makinson's mother died after giving birth to her tenth child, as did her newborn son.
Following his mother's death, Private Makinson and his siblings were cared for by a policeman's family until mid-May 1897 before being admitted into state care.
Unable to contact his feather, foster care authorities placed Private Makinson with a number of families, finally allocating him to Mr Dixie Chapman at Dungog.
In his teens he was apprenticed to James R. Fuller in Dungog and later found work as a sawyer in Beerwah, Queensland, before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in June 1915.
However the Defence Act and army regulations of the time prohibited the enlistment of men not "of substantial European descent".
Despite this, Private Makinson's application was accepted without issue.
After three months of training, the 24-year-old departed Brisbane on HMAT Armadale in September of that year.
His unit arrived in Egypt too late to join the Gallipoli campaign, instead moving south into the Somme Valley ahead of the planned Allied offensive at Pozieres in July, 2016.
During subsequent fighting over 42 days from late that month, more than 23,000 Australians became casualties, including 6,800 men dead.
One of these was Private Makinson, who was killed in action soon after midnight on 23 July, aged 25.
Private Makinson is commemorated on the Australian War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, alongside the names of over 10,000 Australians who died while fighting in the First World War and who have no known grave.
Tuesday's Last Post ceremony will honour the service of Private John Makinson, with Australian War Memorial director Matt Anderson saying the ceremony is a commitment to remembering and honouring the legacy of Australian service.
"Through our daily Last Post Ceremony, we not only acknowledge where and how these men and women died," Mr Anderson said.
"We also tell the stories of who they were when they were alive, and of the families who loved and, in so many cases, still mourn for them.
"The Last Post is now associated with remembrance but originally it was a bugle call to sound the end of the day's activities in the military. It is a fitting way to end each day at the Memorial."
The ceremony will be live streamed via the Australian War Memorial's YouTube page.
