Orange's Jack Brown, who served in the army in Papua New Guinea said it was good to be back as he waited to join the march to the 11am service in Robertson Park.

"I haven't missed any [since the war]," he said.

"I always remember our people through the years [on Anzac Day]."

The 99-year-old said he also remembered 'the people who didn't come back."

He spent last year's Anzac Day in lockdown in an Orange nursing home.

So too did Reg Golding.

"I celebrated it at Calare Nursing Home," he said.

On Sunday Mr Golding wore an array of poppies representing international colours, red for poppies, white for peace, purple for animals and black for Indigenous people.

Mr Golding said it was great to be back at a public event. "Of course it is, it's lovely," he said.

Another WWII veteran was David Birt, 96, who travelled at the head of the march in a police escort vehicle.

And former Orange High School headmaster, David Griffin, 100, who was the only survivor of an eight-man bomber crew shot down over the Netherlands in 1943, was also present.

Mr Griffin was in a prisoner of war camp until 1945 before he moved from Wales to Australia in 1953.

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