About 30 veterans or those related to veterans marched from the post office to the RSL sub-branch in a show of unity and remembrance of those who fought at Gallipoli and in all past wars defending Australia.

Geoff Jones marched with the Australian flag alongside Bill Ferguson with the Aboriginal flag to commemorate all the indigenous veterans of past wars.

At the 11am service Roy Barker spoke on behalf of all the indigenous veterans.

"We live in such a beautiful country, a beautiful island continent called Australia.

"We have to live together and share out burdens together because we are one people... all the people who served in conflicts of war will be remembered for a long, long time to come."

More than 80 people also braved the chill and attended the dawn service held at the war memorial at Lions Park.

Rick Maude from the Lightning Ridge Community Church spoke about the significance of remembering those who had died in past wars.

"Lest we forget. What is it we're not supposed to forget?

"Some can never forget no matter how hard they try.

"Some can never forget because it was their mate, it was their brother, their father, their uncle.

"We've not forgotten the battle that we or others fought, the bitter things we experienced, the unanswered questions we try to forget but can't.

"But we are also determined this morning not to forget those men and women who gave themselves and continue to give them in war so that we in this country can enjoy freedom and security.

"And so this morning in a simple act of silence we say lest we forget."

Reverand Maude also spoke about how those soldiers who fought at Gallipoli helped forge the Australia we know today.

"We particularly recall Gallipoli, a time when this nation took on its independence...in 1915 for so many Australians even though that had grown up being part of the British Empire they were fighting as a country independent from them.

"I suppose those original Anzacs helped us establish our own identity as a country and we will always owe them that.

We don't want it to happen again, that's why we don't forget.

"We are not a war-like people, we don't enjoy it, we don't look forward to it, so when we say lest we forget we also mean that we don't want the abomination of war to continue.

"We want peace for ourselves; we want peace for our children."