A booklet will be published in time for Remembrance Day.
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The Cobram Cemetery Trust and Cobram Barooga RSL sub-branch are seeking to contact families of those interred in Cobram Cemetery who enlisted in any wars involving Australia as part of a Remembrance Day service this year.
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Trust secretary/treasurer/administrator Rachel McKay said she wanted family members to write a short story about their loved ones that enlisted.
“I want to create an historical record, not necessarily of their time at war, just about them,” she said.
“We want to honour those that enlisted or were conscripted.”
Rachel would like to compile all the stories into a booklet that will be available for a small cost at a service ahead of Remembrance Day on November 11.
She has begun searching for the families of service people interred in the cemetery and so far has a list of 250 names out of the 3300 recorded in the cemetery.
The Cobram Barooga RSL sub-branch and Cobram Cemetery Trust will hold a ceremony on Sunday, November 8 to honour service men and women interred at the cemetery.
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Rachel said on her list she had not found many service people from World War I or from the Vietnam, Korean or Boer wars.
The service will be organised by the Cobram Barooga RSL sub-branch and Cobram Cemetery Trust and held a few days before Remembrance Day on Sunday, November 8.
The service will be held by the Lone Pine tree at Cobram Cemetery at 11am, with flags on every enlisted personnel grave, memorial wall and so forth.
People are encouraged to reach out if they have a service family member interred in the cemetery, so their story can be remembered and honoured.
“These are people that we should honour, and they’re our community,” Rachel said.
