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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.

In his Anzac Day address, Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae said the gathering was not to glorify war - "but rather to remember the men and women who served their country, and especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice". After World War I, the remains of so many young men lay, often in unmarked graves, on the other side of the world, he said. "Our memorials were, and remain, shrines for the nation's grief, erected as places where bereaved families and communities could go to pay their respects.

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'.

The NZDF contingent participated in a battlefield tour led by the contingent historian Dr. Ian McGibbon. The tour covered the area between ANZAC cove and Chunuk Bair, leading the team up the ridge line that traced the path that the New Zealand Expeditionary forces endured a 100 years ago. Source: NZDefenceForce/Youtube

British rock legend Mark Knopfler performs a moving guitar version of the Last Post for Superact and it's World War One centenary project, The Last Post - www.thelastpostproject.org.uk Mark's version of the iconic call is dedicated to 17,000 Northumberland Fusiliers killed in the First World War. Having grown up in Blyth, Northumberland, Knopfler dedicated the Last Post performance to his hometown regiment who suffered more casualties in the First World War then any other. Source: http://www.markknopfler.com/mark-plays-the-last-post/

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. New Zealand frigate HMNZS Te Kaha left Wellington on October 16 last year - 100 years to the day that 8500 New Zealand Expeditionary Force troops and almost 4000 horses left to fight in World War 1.

Vintage World War One vehicles are out of storage and driven through Wellington to the Westpac stadium, in preparation for the Anzac parade.

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.

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.

The landscape of war is being recreated in an online game of Minecraft that will appeal to all ages. The Gallipoli in Minecraft exhibition at Auckland Museum opens tomorrow and runs until October 11. 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.

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

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

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'