03 May 2008
Lance Corporal Jason Marks returns home

Lance Corporal Jason Marks returned home to Australia today, met by his family, friends and colleagues in a moving ceremony at RAAF Base Richmond, NSW.

The casket was carried from the C-17 Globemaster to Lance Corporal Marks’ family by an honour guard and bearer party, formed by the soldiers of the 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment. A lone piper led the bearer party.

The ceremony was also attended by the Minister for Defence, the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon MP; the Shadow Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, the Hon. Bob Baldwin MP, representing the Shadow Minister for Defence; Chief of Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston; Chief of Army, Lieutenant General Peter Leahy; and Commander Australian Special Forces, Major General Tim McOwan.

Lance Corporal Marks was killed in action during a battle with Taliban extremists in Oruzgan Province, southern Afghanistan, on 27 April 2008.