How we stopped to remember the fallen John Bone of Adelaide shows his respects at the National War Memorial on North Tce. In Canberra, former Prime Minister John Howard paid tribute to the country's war dead as well as the current crop of soldiers fighting the Islamic State. Giving the commemorative address at the Australian War Memorial, Mr Howard said the latest mission is one driven by the "sense of horror and outrage" that Australians from "all walks of life" feel about the militants "obscene behaviour."