Lead by Mortlake Youth Councillors Emily Grant, Josh Stafford and Josh Spokes, year nine students from Mortlake College’s Duke of Edinburgh advanced class are working to restore the avenue and produce a booklet about the honoured soldiers.

Emily said the project would involve the group of 23 teenagers working with Mortlake’s RSL branch and historical society to research each soldier and replace all the existing, missing or lost name plaques at the base of each tree.

Each young person has been allocated between six and nine soldiers to research.

“The young people involved felt the project was really important because it’s good to promote unity between the generations and educate everyone on an important part of our town’s history that should not be forgotten,'' Ms Grant said.

“We are really grateful to the Mortlake RSL, whose members have given us their blessing and who will be helping throughout the project as they can.

''We feel the project will really help forge close bonds between the two generations and it is a privilege for the young people to work with the RSL and learn more about our history.”

The project will also include erecting signs along the avenue with information about the wars the soldiers fought in.

Funding for the project, which will be completed close to Anzac Day, will be supplied by the Youth Council budget.