Members of the eastern Riverina community participated in Anzac Day services and marches throughout the region. School students dressed up in their uniforms and remembered those who had served their country.
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Sporting events have also gotten underway in the region with members of the footy and netball community cheering on their favourite teams and players.
Photographer Lorri Roden captured the atmosphere.
SIX SIBLINGS came together in Lockhart to remember their father, who served during World War II then became a country man after falling in love and became happy with the simple things in life until he died at 96 years old.
Myra Jankyn, Barbara Doherty, June Smallwood, Rae Smith, Helen West and Tim Wilson were among the hundreds from across the region gathered in Lockhart to pay tribute to servicemen and servicewomen from the town and across the nation.
Mrs Jankyn, a Lockhart resident and the eldest of Private Frederick James Wilson, said her father often said he was lucky to have returned home to Lockhart after being a prisoner in Japan following the fall of Singapore in 1942.
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Rural journalist with Fairfax media based in the Riverina.
Rural journalist with Fairfax media based in the Riverina.
