Media Release 

21 April 2023 

New sign honours the fallen in Kawerau Services Cemetery

This year’s dawn ANZAC Day commemorations in Kawerau will be followed by a special unveiling that morning.

After the ANZAC commemorations, a new sign honouring the fallen will be unveiled in the Kawerau Services Cemetery.

Due to be unveiled at 10am on Anzac Day, April 25, the new sign will be made of granite and installed at the approach to Kawerau’s Service Cemetery.

Local Returned Services Association (RSA) member, Brian Bell, is very pleased with the new sign.

“The Services Cemetery is an important and sacred place in Kawerau, but largely overlooked. This sign will bring more attention and honour to those that lie there and maybe, more understanding of their stories.”

Veterans’ Affairs, a unit of the New Zealand Defence Force, has funded the sign and its installation at Kawerau’s Services Cemetery. They provide assistance to the local authority for the maintenance of the cemetery and fund the service plaques on the graves of those veterans (and their spouses) who are buried there.

The unveiling of the new plaque will take place at 10am on ANZAC Day, April 25.

Nau mai haere mai – All welcome.

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