Three members of Central Gippsland Legacy Group joined a torch relay that began in France last April to mark the centenary of the formation of Legacy.
Group president Neville Cousins, Gayle George and Ron Clark were among 17 torch bearers from five Gippsland groups that took part in a leg of the relay around the streets of Sale to the local RSL clubrooms where a cauldron was lit.
It was one of the final legs in the six months relay that ended at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne after setting out from Pozieres in France and continued through Menin Gate in Belgium and to London before arriving in West Australia and travelling through all states of Australia - a journey of some 50,000 kilometres.
The Royal Australian Air Force's aerobatic team based at East Sale made a flyover while the relay progressed around Sale.
The relay paid tribute to the sacrifices of many Australians and highlighted to communities the work Legacy has done supporting veterans' families over the past century.
A small group of World War 1 veterans founded the organisation in 1923 as a promise to help the wives of wives and children of comrades that were killed in the war or died as a result and has been carried on since in support of families from veterans of subsequent conflicts.
The Central Gippsland group currently cares for 86 widows in the district, two junior legatees and two disabled dependents.