The 2009 Premier’s ANZAC Student Tour participants will travel to the Western Front from 17-27 April to pay tribute to the 313,000 Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium. They will attend ANZAC Day commemorations in Ieper (Ypres), Belgium. Of the 46,000 Diggers who died at the Western Front during World War I, 18,000 have no known grave and the 2009 tour will have a particular emphasis on these missing soldiers. The students have been honoured by being invited to lead the Last Post service at Menin Gate on the evening of 24 April. The nightly service at the Menin Gate Memorial is in remembrance of the many thousands of British and Australian soldiers who fought in the offensive around Ypres in 1917, including the well-known battles of Passchendaele, Menin Road, Polygon Wood and Broodseinde. Engraved on the walls of the Menin Gate Memorial are the names of 54,896 missing soldiers, including 6,176 Australians who died in Flanders and have no known grave.