Prince Harry Unveils Sydney's ANZAC Memorial

Prince Harry was accompanied by his wife the Duchess of Sussex and toured the new memorial and exhibition space before a service was held in front of hundreds of guests.

Among them was Invictus Games athlete David Connolly, who is competing this week in Wheelchair Rugby and Wheelchair Basketball. 

During the service, he read out lines from Laurence Binyon's poem 'For the Fallen' on the steps of the memorial.

Mr Connolly told Forces News: "For the people in Australia, he (Prince Harry) is a hero.

"For all the sick military and all the military, he is just an inspiration you know.

"What he's done to build this thing up to what it is now is just amazing and it has helped so many people." 

Ali Gibson reports on the service. 

The new exhibition houses the sculpture 'Sacrifice'.

The artwork features over 1,700 soil samples from each New South Wales town, suburb and district given as a place of address by First World War enlistees in the region.

The sculpture is to honour the sacrifice these servicemen and servicewomen made.  

There has also been an extension to the existing ANZAC memorial to mark the 100th anniversary of the ending of the First World War. 

The extension includes a water cascade on the southern side and a walkway through the cascade allows Memorial visitors to enter the new Hall of Service, exhibition galleries and education facilities.

The extension has been designed to enhance the Memorial's role to support and provide services for veterans and their families who have suffered loss, ensuring a public and a private place of contemplation, remembrance, education and reflection.