With formal services suspended due to coronavirus social isolation restrictions people of all ages have been practising on a variety of instruments to play The Last Post and Reveille from their driveways on Saturday

They include students from schools across Orange.

Benjamin Hoskins-Murphy, a Year 10 student at Kinross Wolaroi School said he would be playing the trumpet from his front yard.

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"It's an opportunity to show our appreciation for all the sacrifices made," he said.

He has family links to the armed services including his great grandfather Edgar Hoskins who won a military medal for bravery as an ambulance driver on the Western Front in World War I and a great grandfather Cecil Wetherby, who enlisted under the name Joseph Ward, who died at Lone Pine.

Mr Hoskins came to Orange several years after the war and set up an orchard.

Kinross Year 12 student Alanah Seedsman will be playing the cello.

She said it was "an awesome opportunity to take part.

"We can still remember them," she said.

Her sister Ailish, a student at the University of Technology Sydney will join her at dawn playing the violin.

They also have military ancestors with grandfathers Emmett O'Neill and Gilbert Burton in WWII and great grandfathers William Ellis and Reginald Seedsman in WWI.

Orange residents have indicated they will be playing The Last Post on everything from bagpipes to their mobile phones.