Banners have been erected along Summer Street in the lead up to Anzac Day to remember local servicemen who died while serving in the armed forces during wartime.
SACRIFICE: Forty new banners acknowledging the deaths of Orange residents who died in wartime are being displayed in the lead-up to Anzac Day.
In short: It's the 2nd year the 'Local Fallen' banners' are being displayed in Orange's main street.
The project was researched by the Orange RSL sub-branch who put together a list with more than 200 names.
What's next: The banners will be a Summer Street backdrop to Anzac Day commemorations.
It is the second year Orange City Council has produced the banners in cooperation with the Orange RSL sub-branch, as part of the Local Fallen project.
Orange Mayor Tony Mileto welcomed the display of street banners in the main street.
"The deaths of each of these men left a huge toll on their families and the wider Orange community at the time," Cr Mileto said.
"The sacrifice of these servicemen is an important part of our local history and I'm proud their stories can be remembered in this very public way."
The 40 new street banners feature the images and names of servicemen from Orange and the region who died during the Boer War, World War I and II, as well as conflicts in Vietnam and Korea.
The information in the banners has been compiled by the Orange RSL sub-branch.
As well as the street banners, information about each person is included in the heritage section of the Orange City Council website
The RSL research found about 200 Orange servicemen and women died in wartime. It's expected to take several years to acknowledge them all with street banners.
"Each of the 40 banners are very poignant and tell a story of the cost to local families of Australia's involvement in conflicts overseas. One banner records the death of 21-year-old Sydney Smith from Orange who died at Leeuwkop in South Africa during the Boer War in 1901," Cr Mileto said.
"There's Walter Dalliston who was killed in action in Korea in 1952 and John Nunn who died while imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp in Borneo in 1945.
"There's the tragedy of a local 20-year-old man, Tom Hanratty, who died in the Solomon Islands just one month before the war ended in the Pacific, and 25-year-old Bert Robertshaw from Orange who died on the first day of the Gallipoli landing.
"These banners are an important step in remembering the sacrifice of our local fallen."
