New Zealand and Australian children joined armed forces personnel from both countries in prayers and reflection.

Here are some of the best images shared by NZ Herald readers of Anzac Day commemorations across the country and overseas.

An estimated 1200+ Australians and New Zealanders attended today's dawn service at Gallipoli, many sleeping out overnight in front of the main stage above the Aegean Sea.

A new aged-care hospital ward will be named in memory of a Kiwi soldier who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2012.

There were plenty of ooohs and ahhhs at Wellington's Anzac dawn service today as Rawiri Phillips attended in a handmade soldier uniform his mum stayed up all night to make.

Christchurch's earthquake-damaged Bridge of Remembrance has been reopened to the public today at a special Anzac Day ceremony.

There were plenty of ooohs and ahhhs at Wellington's Anzac dawn service today as four-week-old Rawiri Phillips attended in a handmade soldier uniform.

Bill Mitchell was deemed "too old" to be a World War II fighter pilot, but he spent six years as an engineer repairing aircraft flown by New Zealand pilots.

The Governor-General has called on New Zealanders to find out more find out more their ancestors' experiences of World War I.

Bill Mitchell was deemed "too old" to be a Second World War fighter pilot, but at today's Anzac Day commemorations the 103-year-old veteran was the last survivor of his war-time comrades.

Expect clogged roads and slow-moving traffic today as the procession of long weekend holiday-goers make their way back home.

Dawn service on Anzac day at the Auckland domain.

Wellington morning’s service for ANZAC day.

Thousands of people - and some animals - gathered at Anzac Day dawn services around the country this morning.

Thousands of people gathered at Anzac Day dawn services around the country and around the world morning.

Anzac Dawn Service at the Cenotaph in Mt Maunganui.

Thousands turned out for dawn service at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.

A 16-year-old boy will appear in a Sydney court later today charged with planning a terrorist attack on a Sydney Anzac Day event.

One year after the Gallipoli centennial, the focus of Anzac Day television coverage has widened and moved on.

New Zealanders gather today to mark 100 years since the first Anzac service.

It was distressing to see so many empty seats at the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Spirit of Anzac concert.

A teenager will stand side-by-side with an elderly veteran to be the faces of an Anzac memorial service this morning.

COMMENT: Preserving the tradition and meaning of this day becomes more important with every year. This responsibility lies with young people.

Exactly a century ago, when New Zealanders marked the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landings, they would have been heartily sick of war.

Corazon Miller pays tribute to those unsung women who served in a time they were expected to 'sit down and sew things'.

For ANZAC day Corazon Miller looks at the roles women have played in the course of New Zealand’s military history. We hear the stories of women from as far back as New Zealand’s first overseas campaign, the second Boer War, to those currently serving in the armed forces.

COMMENT: Anzac day celebrations and remembrance overlooks one crucial part of history; the Armenian Genocide.

The public are being encouraged to take public transport to the main Anzac Day dawn service in central Auckland tomorrow.