Hundreds turned out to the East Maitland cenotaph to pay their respects for Anzac Day on Monday.
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The Maitland City Brass Band provided music for the hymns and national anthems, and four young soldiers from the Singleton base formed the Catafalque Party, having only been in the army for three weeks.
Maitland Christian School teacher Craig Shafer told the gathering about the journey he had taken to Gallipoli last year and the impact it had on the 20 students, from schools across the Hunter, who accompanied him.
The students travelled as part of a project which involved in-depth research of an Australian who had died on a foreign field in World War I.
“From their words, found in diaries and letters home, to their actions under dire circumstances, we find new ways to define words like heroism, discipline, persistence, mateship and selflessness,” Mr Shafer said. “These qualities, and more, are what make up the Anzac spirit and we find them in their stories.”
