New Zealanders from around the world have shared their Anzac Day memories with us. Here are the 10 best pictures that capture the spirit of the day.

More than 10,000 Kiwis and Australians stood together on Gallipoli peninsula to mark the centenary of the ill-fated campaign and to honour the Anzac troops who fought and died.

The special relationship is the bond encapsulated in the word "Anzac", the union of the soldiers of this country with those of Australia during the ill-fated Turkish campaign.

People share their personal war stories as they hunker down for the long night.

Watch video highlights of today's dawn service at Anzac Cove in Turkey, featuring the prime ministers of New Zealand and Australia. Video / Alan Gibson

North Canterbury held a ANZAC centenary horse ride in Waikari were one hundred horse riders rode from Hawarden to Waikari. Small country towns lost a large percentage of men in World War One and it affected the communities for generations to come.

In Wellington the silence over the crowd of thousands at the Pukeahu National War Memorial Park was broken as the sound of soldiers marching in hobnail boots echoed across Anzac Square and the memorial park. The dawn parade was led into the square by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae and Australia's Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove. As sunrise pierced the dark on the unusually still morning, a lone piper piped the Flowers of the Forest lament from a platform halfway up the Carillon.

Students from Balmacewan Intermediate School Choir sing “1914”, a song written to commemorate the horses that went to war from New Zealand. It was written for the children by their music teacher Sue Mepham to tell the WW100 story from a different perspective

The small rural community of Ngatimoti sent 14 men on the first shipment of Kiwi troops in 1914. One of the men was William Ham who was the first New Zealander to be killed in the war.

Tinui was the first place in the world to commemorate Anzac Day, at 7.30am on April 26, 1916, a year after the landings. Tinui Anzac Trust chairman Alan Emerson said this year's Anzac service at Tinui is its biggest yet, in keeping with the 100-year commemorations since New Zealand troops fought at Gallipoli. Tinui was the first place in the world to commemorate Anzac Day, at 7.30am on April 26, 1916, a year after the landings.

Click here for live coverage from the Gallipoli Dawn Service, happening right now in Turkey.

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.

The New Zealand Defence force performing a haka after the Last Post ceremony, under the Menin gate in Ypres.

An inspired and original interactive community art installation, The Giant Poppy, has been completed in the Auckland Domain for ANZAC Day with the laying of 59,000 red metal poppy petals (honouring those wounded and killed in WW1) which include 25,000 personal messages from Aucklanders who have visited the Domain or online donations from New Zealanders all over the country and the world.

The dawn parade in Wellington was led by Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae and Australia's Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove who spoke to the thousands attending. Also among the crowd were deputy Prime Minister Bill English, Labour Party MP Grant Robertson, representing the opposition and Victoria Cross holder Willie Apiata.

Dawn services from Australia and New Zealand.

Anzac Day Dawn Service at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Thousands of people have been gathering at the museum from as early as 4.30am. All generations of New Zealanders have gathered today, from the very young to those older.

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and his son Prince Harry pay their respects to the tens of thousands of British troops who died at the Battle of Gallipoli, laying wreaths and recalling the suffering of the soldiers.

A motorcycle gang disrupted a Dawn Service at Waiouru this morning. Rebel gang members were accused on Twitter of turning up at the service late and then driving off on their motorbikes during the Last Post. Source: Andi Brotherston

NZ Herald reporter Anna Leask finds the resting place of her great-great-uncle, who died at Gallipoli, aged 18. She finds the place where Frank Woodhouse died 100 years ago during the 1915 Anzac Campaign. His remains, like so many others, were never found and his name is inscribed on a memorial to the missing at the cemetery at Hill 60.

Prime Minister John Key has arrived at ANZAC Cove and has met Aussie and Kiwis who are 'overnighting'awaiting the Dawn service. He laid a wreath and said Gallipoli is 'embedded in our DNA' and to the memories of our fallen 'thank you and proud of them'.

As the sun set over the Aegean Sea hundreds of Kiwis filed into the Anzac Commemorative site at Gallipoli ahead of the Dawn Service.

Watch the 76th Dawn Service at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Remembering all the men and women who have served in war and peace, and the Gallipoli campaign 100 years ago.

The great-grandaughter of the only New Zealander to be awarded a Victoria Cross for the Gallipoli campaign was one of about 1000 St Cuthbert's College students to take part in a visual Anzac commemoration.

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.