The ceremony kicked off with a mournful Maori lament setting the tone for the solemn observance; The gathering took place near a beach where the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) first landed at Gallipoli at dawn on April 25, 1915
A band march during the ANZAC Day parade in Sydney. PIC/AFP
Britain’s Princess Anne, New Zealand’s prime minister and Australia’s governor-general gathered near the World War I battlefields on Turkiye’s Gallipoli Peninsula for a dawn ceremony on Friday to remember the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who lost their lives in a tragic campaign 110 years ago.
The gathering took place near a beach where the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) first landed at Gallipoli at dawn on April 25, 1915. The ceremony kicked off with a mournful Maori lament setting the tone for the solemn observance.
Aussies, Kiwis commemorate war dead
Thousands gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Friday for dawn services and street marches to commemorate their war dead on ANZAC Day. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and opposition leader Peter Dutton took a day off campaigning ahead of general elections on May 3 as a mark of respect. On April 25, 1915, ANZAC landed on beaches of Gallipoli, in northwest Turkiye, in an ill-fated campaign—the soldiers’ first combat of WWI.
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