THE Kooweerup RSL will this Sunday launch an Avenue of Honour along Rossiter Street in memory of the 40 district Diggers who lost their life in World War I.
McMillan MP Russell Broadbent will officially open the avenue of trees, each dedicated to a fallen Anzac, at 10.30am.
The ceremony will include a parade and display of Great War memorabilia.
Kooweerup RSL members took part in a working bee at the proposed avenue site located the weekend before Easter.
Sub-branch secretary Ray Brown said the purpose of the work was to excavate and pour at the base of each tree the concrete footings which will provide the base to carry individual granite blocks, which will each have a bronze plaque affixed.
“Plaques on the stones will display the names of the Diggers, including two sets of brothers, and will be positioned, each of them individually, at the base of a tree planted in their honour,” he said.
“These granite stones and the plaques will be in tribute to those in World War I that came from Kooweerup and surrounding districts who paid the supreme sacrifice in serving our country.”
