No-one had more reason to be in the front row at Wanaka's Anzac service yesterday than Avis Munro, who was wearing a selection of her family's medals.
In pride of place was the Military Cross and bar awarded to her father, Lieutenant James Roy, for bravery during World War 1.
Lt Roy left his trench during the Battle of the Somme to rescue wounded comrades and was wounded in the process.
The medal was presented to him personally by King George V while he was recovering in a London hospital.
He later served, for 25 years, as member of Parliament for Clutha.
Mrs Munro said she accompanied her father to Anzac services every year from the time she was a young child.
She believes she has missed only two services - two of her three sons having birthdays in April.
At her mother, Margaret's, insistence, Mrs Munro had also always worn her brother Bob Roy's medal at Anzac services. Ordinary Seaman Roy was lost overboard from HMNZS Sanda in 1943.
Mrs Munro also lost three uncles in World War 1.
Three medals she was not wearing yesterday belonged to her recently deceased husband, Ernie Munro, who served as an army private in World War 2 and fought at the Battle of Monte Cassino.
His medals were yesterday being worn by his three sons at Anzac services in Australia and Wellington.
