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Subscriber only ARMED with Australian flags, a throng of volunteers dispersed across Ipswich cemeteries early Tuesday morning to remember fallen defence and service personnel. Organisers Donna Cavanagh and Oggy Smith rounded up volunteers to place flags at the headstones of those of the Australian Defence Force, Ambulance Service and Police Service. Drawing more than 60 people, the occasion has tripled since it launched last year, an exciting sign for Donna and Oggy, who first engaged in the ritual when they lived in Sydney. Donna Cavanagh at the Australia Day Flag Planting across Ipswich Cemetery, 2021. Photo: Ebony Graveur The ADF relocated the pair to Ipswich in 2017 and, noticing there was nothing similar in Ipswich, decided to start something from the ground up.