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Sutton Veny is a small village near the sprawling Salisbury Plain military training area in southern England.

It has two particularly strong associations with Australia.

Large number of Asutralian troops were based at a nearby camp in WW1.  The Sutton Veny churchyard contains the graves of many Australian soldiers who died in nearby military hospitals, most notably during the influenza epidemic of 1918.

On an adjacent hillside is a very large Rising Sun badge cut into the chalk sub-strate along with other unit badges, by soldiers of those units when based nearby.

For many years Australian military personnel studying at the Royal Military College of Science used to observe ANZAC Day at this site and would maintain the Rising Sun badge.