Dr Kate Ariotti is investigating an invisible aspect of our military past- what happened to the bodies of Australian military personnel when they died on active service. Her research, funded through the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme, is providing an Australian perspective on global conversations about the history of the corpse in war. In this episode we talk to Kate about her research, which aims to provide the first-ever account of changing policies, practices and attitudes that shaped how the physical remains of Australian war dead were dealt with between the First World War and the wars in the Middle East between 1915 and 2015. We find out what her research is uncovering about this little-known, but important, part of Australian history.