The moving dawn service held today in Gallipoli, Turkey, marked the 107th anniversary of the landings at Anzac Cove. 9News
This year's Gallipoli dawn service featured a didgeridoo performance.
"For all but a few, this was to be their first experience of the horrors of combat. Most were convinced that, as one New Zealand soldier wrote in his diary: 'It will be the greatest days in our lives'." The first Commemorative Address was then given by his Excellency Myles Armitage, the Australian ambassador to the Republic of Turkey.
Australia and New Zealand's buglers, who played the Last Post at this year's services in Gallipoli, told 9News earlier of their matching stories.Australian Army Bugler Isaac White and Raynor Martin from the New Zealand Army both attended for the first time, both visits were delayed due to COVID-19, and both had great-grandfathers who served at Gallipoli."I actually had them blessed at Anzac Cove the other day and played a little sunset for him," he said.
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