With no official service held at the war memorial, people were asked to stay home and watch Anzac services online or on TV.

Residents were also asked to light candles on their driveway at 6am and musicians were also asked to play the Last Post at home.

The service from Canberra was unofficially played from a car radio and Orange RSL Sub Branch president Chris Colvin silently raised the flags to half mast and lit a torch before bugler Derek Johns played the Last Post at 6am.

The small scattering of people dispersed as soon as the minute silence and Reveille finished.

"[It was] strange, I'm very honoured to be able to do it in a way to commemorate the fallen and to say thank you to all the service personnel that have served this country, both those that have not come back and those that did," Mr Colvin said.

"I think that what we are doing today and what the country is doing today is a wonderful thing, it's a way we can commemorate the fallen.

"I think it was even more solemn for me, it felt more solemn for me and my personal reflection. When you have a crowd of people here you are doing a service.

"It was the same but different too."

Mr Colvin said it was wonderful to see the few people who did attend maintain social distance, and to hear the echos of overlapping bugles, other instruments, and recordings, across Orange that signalled the private commemorations taking place in residential streets.

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"We told nobody, I think it was just that people wanted to show their respect," he said about the tribute at the war memorial.

"It's a very strange day.

"Back in 1919 when they came back [from World War I] there was no march because they were in a pandemic and we are back in it."

Mr Colvin said several of the wreaths and flowers at the cenotaph had been laid the previous day.

"There were people coming down yesterday and leaving floral tributes, I think a lot of people did it before today so there would not be any problems," he said.

"I said don't rush down to do it but do it."

Later in the morning, four police officers laid a wreath on behalf of the Orange station, and various community members laid wreaths, flowers or paid their respects in other ways.

Robert and Lynette Walsh were among those who visited the cenotaph.

"We were marvelling at how many of the one [family] name were on this cenotaph and how many people from the area when it was a fledgling town," Mrs Walsh said.

"Lyn lost her grandfather in WWI, he wasn't from this area," Mr Walsh said.

Mrs Walsh said her grandfather landed at Gallipoli twice, after the wounded the first time, and he was later killed at the Somme.

Among those who didn't attend the war memorial but still commemorated the service and sacrifice of Australian service personnel was Don Peck, who has played the bagpipes at Anzac Day services for almost 50 years.

Mr Peck started performing services with a pipe band at Nashdale, and this year he maintained the tradition by playing Amazing Grace from the end of his driveway at 11am.

"It's been interesting, I've been watching the kids in their driveways," Mr Peck said.

"I think it's great they are creating their own memory of Anzac Day in their own way.

"They wouldn't be doing it unless they had some sort of respect.

"It must have some meaning to people.

"We've all got to do it in our own way I suppose."

Mr Peck described the day as strange and said usually he would rush to multiple events starting with the dawn service followed by a memorial at St Joseph's Catholic Church and other services.

Legacy fundraising has also been affected due to cash collections not being able to take place due to restrictions brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.

To help the voluntary organisation, which provides services to people with an immediate family member who has died or given their health in the line of duty, Orange resident Claire Bennett has set up a fundraising page, Fundraise for Legacy on the Everyday Hero website.