General News
17 March, 2021
Flag to fly graveside as mark of respect
COBDEN Technical School students are joining forces with the Cobden Cemetery Trust to help pay tribute to service men and women laid to rest at the Cobden Cemetery.
COBDEN Technical School students are joining forces with the Cobden Cemetery Trust to help pay tribute to service men and women laid to rest at the Cobden Cemetery.
The project – dubbed the Australian Flag Commemoration Project – is being undertaken by the Year 9 Humanities students.
Cobden Technical School building community co-ordinator Andrea Stoddart said she is excited about the project which will see Australian flags temporarily installed beside graves of service men and women ahead of Anzac Day.
“It’s about increasing the student’s awareness of our soldiers who lived locally and it increases their knowledge of all things in the community,” she said.
“It’s also about being able to keep the Anzac story alive for this generation.
“We’re hoping it will become a new tradition for Cobden.”
Cobden Cemetery Trust member Trevor Roberts said 16 graves of service men and women have officially been registered with the cemetery trust.
He said the trust is pleased to be involved in the project.
“We’re being respectful of the memorials and doing it the right way,” Mr Roberts said.
“There will be no interference with the graves.”
Ms Stoddart said the flags will be raised on April 22, with plans to have a ceremony on April 23 involving the whole school and wider community.
She asked of any community member who knows of a grave to be included in the memorial to fill out the form at https://bit.ly/30OzKi9.