The graves and memorials of veterans and servicemen and women at the Waipawa Cemetery had a scrub and a spruce-up ahead of Anzac Day, courtesy of the New Zealand Remembrance Army.
Ex-New Zealand Army Infantry Officer Jason Lee is the local representative of the voluntary service, a nationwide charitable trust set up to help conserve military war graves and memorials.
Jason's own grandparents and great-grandparents are represented in the memorials at the Waipawa Cemetery, his motivation for the call to action on the Saturday of Anzac weekend.
A post on Facebook drew a steady stream of helpers armed with brooms, buckets and scrubbing brushes, while Jason's son Matt was first tasked with cleaning the plaque that holds the name of his great-grandfather Frederick Wilson Lee, who was awarded the Military Medal for his service as a gunner in WWII.
![Matt Lee gives an extra shine to the plaque belonging to his great grandfather Frederick Wilson Lee.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/PL7XC5IOWTWDST6S7AMUJWWMQU.jpg?auth=3211c084ae1b013f6a17054fe688a3bde2593d176252739a51083881c2bf1912&width=16&height=8&quality=70&smart=true)