More information about Gisborne’s Cenotaph has come in as its 100th birthday was marked at the Anzac Day service on Tuesday.

June Stichbury says her father-in-law, Captain Leslie Stichbury, is the serviceman that the soldier on top of the  marble statue memorial was based on.

The veteran served in World War 1 but also organised and commanded the Anzac Day parade in 1920, and continued to do so from 1925 to 1940.

Mr Stichbury died in 1976 at the age of 81.

Mayor Rehette Stoltz, in her Anzac Day dawn service speech and a Gisborne Herald article, said the memorial was designed by local architect and war veteran Edward Armstrong, and was unveiled by Colonel Charles Melvill on Anzac Day, 1923.

Colonel Melvill was a one-time commander of the New Zealand Division in the later stages of World War 1.