Students at Solway Primary School have woven a hundred small crosses from harakeke flax that will soon grace the French graves of Kiwi soldiers who laid down their lives during WWI.
Teacher Steve Hornby said he and his class had woven the crosses at the request of Carterton woman Viv Walker, whose children were past pupils at the school.
Archivist Dolores Ho, from the Waiouru Army Museum, had founded the not-for-profit Dolores Cross Project as a scheme to pay tribute to new Zealand soldiers buried overseas.
The initiative sought out Kiwis to take the crosses if they were living or travelling near foreign cemeteries in which New Zealand soldiers were buried, and laying the small tribute on graves. Ms Walker was travelling to Nord and staying near the Fifteenth Ravine Cemetery in Viliers Plouich, and the Anneux British Cemetery.
"Dolores was a bit short of ready-made crosses and asked if I could make 140 to place on the graves of all the New Zealand soldiers in both cemeteries I was visiting," Ms Walker said.