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A letter from Lieutenant Charles Hamilton Loughnan describes the “bloodiest bit of fighting in history” at Gallipoli in 1915.

The Anzac service in Gallipoli is set to start as 100th anniversary commemorations finish up around New Zealand.

New Zealanders gathered around the country to see the first light of the day and remember the people who died in battle while forging the Anzac spirit.

The Prince of Wales and Prince Harry have met relatives of veterans of the Gallipoli Campaign who 100 years ago were on the eve of history.

Every Kiwi who has visited the sacred ground will surely have seen the contribution to the Anzac effort left by Auckland architect Edmund Townley Marr.

Standing at the place where her great-great-uncle died 100 years ago, during the 1915 Anzac Campaign, Anna Leask is overwhelmed.

"When you get there you really do feel them all around you," writes Judy Bailey, in Gallipoli for Anzac Day. "It's an incredibly spiritual place."

Today the Herald will be using Twitter to familiarise readers with how events unfolded at Gallipoli when the Anzac troops landed 100 years ago.

At 2.30pm NZ time today, the sun will rise over Anzac Cove and the Dawn Service will begin, marking 100 years since the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli.

H E Damla Yesim Say, Turkish Ambassador to NZ, Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae and Prime Minister John Key on the significance of this day.

"I am having an Anzac remembrance breakfast with my parents. Given my dad was an RNZAF pilot (although not in World War I) this seems appropriate." - Simon Gault

This Anzac Day Elisabeth Easther looks at ways to help youngsters learn more about how the war affected their ancestors.

Reporter Kurt Bayer sets the scene for those on home soil as the first centenary commemoration winds down, a world away.

The first of the Anzac commemorative services is well underway, as Kiwis start to rise to commemorate our fallen heroes here on home soil.

A three hour security sweep has begun at Gallipoli ahead of tomorrow’s Anzac Day commemorations.

For many Kiwis, Anzac Day has an almost sacred or spiritual quality and, for some, it represents a proxy national day, writes Bryce Edwards.

They were sketched amid the hell of Gallipoli, drew the complements of the WW1 campaign’s foremost generals, and were later shown before the Royal Family.

WWI mini-series gets personal with drama and romance as well as action.

They have sailed 14,000 nautical miles halfway around the world, in the wake of the Anzac soldiers and seamen who fought and died a century ago.

On the 100th anniversary, we are probably closer than ever to recognising the real significance of Anzac Day.

If the rehearsal is anything to go by, the real thing will be powerful, stirring and emotional.

A former National MP and author of The Good Lobbyist's Guide, has been getting in ministers' ears, urging them to stop subsidising the loss-making operations of KiwiRail.

Rock superstar Serj Tankian may call NZ home - but today he'll be in Armenia, commemorating the lives of his ancestors lost to genocide 100 years ago.

World War I medals dug out of an Auckland garden decades ago have found their way back to their original recipient's family - just in time for Anzac Day.