As the fog lifted on the morning prior to Anzac Day, high school students from Mudgee commemorated local defence service personnel as part of a new initiative.
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Honour Our Fallen is a not-for-profit organisation formed to preserve the memory of those deceased military personnel, buried in Australia.
Including Army, Navy, Airforce, Nursing Corps, Women’s Services, Merchant Seamen and Peacekeeping personnel from all conflicts dating back to the Boer War.
Students from Mudgee High and St Matthew’s Catholic School – in partnership with the Mudgee RSL Sub-Branch – researched and located ex-service personnel graves in the Mudgee cemetery and placed an Australian flag on each site.
Honour Our Fallen was launched on Remembrance Day, November 11, 2017, with the goal to implement their plans in concert with the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
The program will see the placing the Australian flags prior to each Anzac Day, beginning in 2018.
This year also acted as something of a fine-tuning exercise with the students also working to fill in any gaps in the records.
Noting any graves that indicated military service but that didn’t appear on the lists compiled.
They also mapped out the sites to help future observances.
One of the missions of the program is to support the education of youth with the students learning a little bit about each person they stop at.
For more information go to honourourfallen.com
