Making posies for servicemen's and women's graves

Scouts Cailyn McConnell (10) and Tristan Hurndell (15) wrap some rosemary (for remembrance) in red paper (to signify the poppy) to make Anzac posies yesterday.

The posies will be laid on the graves of servicemen and women at services across Dunedin today. About 40 people, young and old, turned up to HMNZS Toroa yesterday to help make more than 4000 posies needed by the Dunedin RSA.

One group of students said they were treating the job as meeting a requirement in the management course to do something to help the community.

Another woman said she volunteered because she felt more like she was doing something to commemorate fallen soldiers, than she would be doing by attending a service alone.