WALLUMBILLA will celebrate the unveiling of an important monument several years in the making this Anzac Day.

The town's many long years without a memorial comes to an end when the beautiful new cenotaph is revealed at the site of the Wallumbilla-Yuleba service this Anzac Day.

Marchers will assemble at the police station before 9am before marching to the cenotaph for the memorial at 9.15pm.

There they will be greeted by a beautiful black granite monument next to the 1936 memorial hall with the text "Lest We Forget" and red poppies on the base.

On the rear of the monument are 128 names of locals who served in the First World War. The names are the work of painstaking research by local historian Roslyn Stemmler who said her list of locals is now up to 145. "These include people who were born here and enlisted someplace else," Roslyn said.

"These people on the plaque are the first selectors, or the sons of the first selectors."

Roslyn said she hoped to research the district's Second World War soldiers at a later date.

Wallumbilla school principal Gary Lynn is also passionate about his history and he was determined to support the building of a local shrine. "My father was a serviceman and Anzac Day is something I really believe it," Mr Lynn said.

"I love seeing people turn up and it is a good way to breathe life into the local community."

Mr Lynn said they were studying history as part of the national curriculum in the first six months of the year at the school.

"This fits in perfectly," he said.

Both Rosyln and Gary thanked the work of the Wallumbilla Town Improvement Group in making the shrine a reality.

"Now Wallumbilla and Yuleba will take it in turns to host the region's Anzac Day service," Roslyn said.

The Town Improvement group is hoping that Council will complete phase 2 of the project with landscaping around the cenotaph in time for the 100th anniversary at Gallipoli when it will be Wallumbilla's turn to host the service again.

Roslyn, who already has two books on Wallumbilla to her name, said she was now planning to turn her research into a two-volume book on Wallumbilla's servicemen and women.

"If you don't recognise your local history you lose it," she said.

"Community duty is always strong here and is very important to me."