"The Dunkeld Cemetery Trust first mooted the idea in 2017," co-organiser Vicki Hills said.
"This year we realised the end of the project.
"Thanks to generous donations, community members pitching in, the sterling work of Jenna Melvin of McBrides [and] Lt-col Kevin Baff, who contacted us to offer assistance researching names.
"This has been very beneficial.
"It provided us with some great stories and insight into some of our people."
"We’ve always got together in paddocks here and there, and we’re very grateful to have this earnest and purposeful new monument to pay our respects at," Beaumont cemetery committee chairman Neville Hills said.
In Balclutha on Anzac Day, a crowd of hundreds followed a pipe band from Te Pou ō Mata-Au Clutha District War Memorial & Community Centre about half a kilometre to a dawn service at the cenotaph in Elizabeth St.
It was the traditional route but the first march since the new civic centre was completed.
A minute’s silence and bugler followed speeches acknowledging the sacrifice and sorrow of wars past and present, and Lt-col Baff read a new honour-roll of 44 district servicemen uncovered by his research who are not recorded on Balclutha’s monument.
He later joined 40 others at Beaumont’s first service with the new monument.
Services were also held at Benhar, Clinton, Dunrobin, Heriot, Kaitangata, Kaka Point, Lawrence, Milton, Lovell’s Flat, Owaka, Katea,Tuapeka Mouth, Taieri Mouth, Tapanui, and Warepa.
