Honour Our Fallen, in partnership with schools, will research and locate ex-service personnel graves in Highlands cemeteries, and place an Australian flag.
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Chevalier College, Bowral High, Frensham College, Southern Highlands Christian School, and Moss Vale High have divided the 153 names received so far, for research during their school curriculum.
With assistance from the Wingecarribee Shire Council’s cemeteries department, the students will local the grave sites in 13 cemeteries throughout the Southern Highlands.
Prior to each ANZAC Day, they will place an Australian flag on each grave site or memorial plaque.
The commemoration will include army, navy, air force, nursing corps, women’s services, merchant seamen, and peacekeeping personal from all conflicts dating back to the Boer War.
Honour Our Fallen director Richard McCarthy OAM said, their mission is to perpetuate the memory of all deceased veterans and to build pride in the community, particularly through the youth, in the virtues of service to the nation and respect for those who died protecting our freedom and way of life.
“Honour Our Fallen is a blend of research of those that now lay silent in cemeteries and who wore our nation’s service uniforms. It has been fused together with Highlands students to gain a better understanding and respect of past and present generations,” he said.
“This in turn, we believe, will lead to greater recognition and respect for those presently serving in uniform and their acceptance upon returning from overseas duty by the community at large, and assist to ease war-caused post-traumatic stress disorder.”
If you wish to honour any ex-service relative or friend, go to honourourfallen.com, complete a flag request from, and press submit.