On Tuesday, 107 years ago, a young Goulburn man by the name of Edward Bryden had his life abruptly cut short just a day after landing at Gallipoli.
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The 20-year old had enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force like so many young men, eager to fight for King and Country during the First World War.
Just a day after Allied forces landed on the Turkish peninsula however, Edward was killed in action.
His is one of 10 graves that Friends of Goulburn Historic Cemeteries will place an Australian flag and sprig of rosemary upon on Anzac Day.
Four died during the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign in 1915 while the remaining six all fought and died in France between 1916 and 1918. One, a Captain George Richards, won the Military Cross in 1917.
Although buried overseas, the families of the fallen ensured their memory was kept alive through headstones located in St Saviours and Mortis Street cemteries, sites that had fallen into disrepair over the decades.
Friends member Heather West said the group had slowly been making a list and doing research over the past two and half years to identify the fallen.
"We had started unearthing graves and tidying cemeteries about two and a half years ago when we realised we had quite a significant number of World War I grave memorials so last Remembrance Day the RSL gave us red poppies to place on the graves," she explained.
"But we didn't know we actually had so many (WWI veterans) until we tidied the graves and read the inscriptions. We then do a bit of research."
While 10 graves/memorials will be marked on Monday, it's suspected that many others existed at some point but only those set in stone have survived.
"There were probably more but the only ones that have stood the test of time are the headstones," she said.
"There may have been wooden crosses with memorials on them because it's well over 100 years ago and the families wouldn't have travelled all that way to Europe.
"At least they had somewhere to go and remember those who served their country and never came back."
Here is the full list of graves to be marked, the first four are in St Saviours and the remaining in Mortis Street.
Edward Bryden - died at Gallipoli 26 April 1915
Stanley Beer - died at Dardanelles May 1915
Aubrey Sherring - died at Gallipoli July 1915
Reginald Compton - died at Gallipoli September 1915
Leslie Caine - died in France June 1916
Leopold Ferguson - died in France June 1917
Cpt George Richards - died in France September 1917. He won the Military Cross.
Leslie Dallas - died in France April 1918
Ronnie Banks - died at the Somme August 1918
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