BJ Clark wanders the carefully-manicured rows of Gallipoli gravestones with the Youth Ambassadors.

It didn’t just rain, it poured. But the icy weather did little to deter the Kiwi contingent dress rehearsal for Saturday’s New Zealand service at Chunuk Bair.

New Zealand Defence Force contingent leader Lieutenant Colonel Mike Duncan told the Herald the contingent - made up of the NZDF Band, Maori culture group, Youth Ambassadors and catafalque guard of honour - had been rehearsing for months. He was “outstandingly proud” to see them at Chunuk Bair performing their duties. The group have been rehearsing for months and yesterday morning practiced their individual parts before coming together for a full run through.

The day after the landings on April 26, the Allies enticed Italy to change sides, in another secret treaty whereby they were promised they too could have part of the Ottoman empire.

On Anzac Day we'll use the power of social media to recreate the opening hours of the Gallipoli campaign.

Fast becoming a tradition in the nights leading up to and on Anzac Day are the museum's free film screenings projected on to the northern facade. This year the film is from TVNZ's upcoming World War I drama series, When We Go to War, as well as rarely seen photographs of New Zealanders at Gallipoli from the museum's collections.

Matt Gauldie has been the New Zealand Army’s artist for 10 years. He talks to Jennifer Dann about his work and the places it has taken him.

A virtual world recreating the 1915 Gallipoli landscape in the popular game of Minecraft will be downloadable from Anzac Day.

A behind the scenes look at the making of Gallipoli in Minecraft, a virtual world recreating the 1915 Gallipoli landscape. The Gallipoli in Minecraft exhibition at Auckland Museum opens tomorrow and runs until October 11.

Building the biggest Poppy in the world to honor WW100 and those who protected our freedom and democracy. The Giant Poppy will consist of 59,000 discs.

Two things immediately strike you when standing at Anzac Cove: the tiny beach, and just how daunting and steep the rugged terrain is that lies ahead.

Military historian Dr Christopher Pugsley gives the New Zealand Herald a tour of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.

Preparations for commemorative ceremonies at the Gallipoli Peninsula are in full swing. Reporter Anna Leask is there.

Thousands of people of all ages had come to place the red metal discs over the past five days, including many schoolchildren.

An online family history database is opening its military records tomorrow as an Anzac gesture.

When Richard Stowers published his first book about the Gallipoli campaign in 2005 he knew he had more to say.

Families of fallen Kiwi, Aussie soldiers in Afghanistan lay wreaths at new memorial opened in Wellington.

The sons of a fallen Kiwi and Australian soldiers laid wreaths down at the new Australian Anzac memorial in Wellington.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot took part in the dedication for the Australian Memorial at the Pukeahu National War Memorial, saying the Anzac links forged a century ago continue.

Soldiers, veterans, politicians and a small group of protesters have gathered for the dedication of the Australia Memorial at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington.

In 1915, a New Zealand flag sat in a drawer in an Auckland home for many years until, by chance, it became well known.

As Mackenzie Glover looks forward to wearing her grandfather's medals on Anzac Day, her family is racing to find heirs to even earlier military decorations.

Through the Poppy Appeal fundraising, the RSA is always ready to assist veterans in need of support.

Des Price remembers, as clearly as if it were yesterday, his WWII experiences on one of New Zealand's most famous warships, the Leander.

From the archives of the Auckland War Museum and the New Zealand Herald are photographs of past ANZAC services at the cenotaph and stills of or service-persons in action and remembrance. The RSA Ode to the Fallen (Laurence Binyon), to remember fallen servicepersons, is recited every Friday at 6pm. 'They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning. We will remember them'