The names of Leslie Zeigler, Edwin Pidcock, Bryan Connell, Graham Dallimore, Raymond Pamment, Owen Hunter and Warren Hughes, who passed away between July, 2012 and October, 2013 were added to the memorial and officially recognised at a ceremony officiated by Eurobodalla and Far South Coast National Servicemen’s Association president Alan Shephard.

The men were members of the Eurobodalla and Far South Coast Association or were ex-national servicemen who lived in the area.

Wreaths and floral tributes were placed in memory of the men. 

Moruya RSL Sub-Branch chaplain, Reverend Elizabeth Richardson, spoke a prayer of remembrance while Greg Hazlett played The Last Post.

Reveille and John Morrison and John Cross’s pipe lament added to the atmosphere of the occasion.

Phillip Testaz recited the National Servicemen’s Ode at the recently constructed National Servicemen’s memorial, which features an aircraft propeller, ship’s anchor and mounted army helmet representing the three arms of the services. 

The history of the National Servicemen’s Association, now more commonly known as the Nashos, was told by presenter Peter Wilson, who highlighted the fact that in the first national service scheme between 1951 and 1959, a total of 227,000 young men aged 18 were called up for national service. In the second scheme introduced in 1965 more than 63,000 were called up and incorporated into two years full-time service in the regular army.

More than 15,000 of these served in Vietnam and the remainder served in support units in Australia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. Two-hundred-and-twelve men died on active service.