Former Whanganui High School student Brad Mancer never imagined having the opportunity to play the Last Post at Gallipoli.
So being asked to play it at the official Anzac Day commemorations on the peninsula this year was an honour, he said.
Mancer is part of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band based in Wellington. He was selected as a member of a tri-service brass quintet to play at the dawn service and the New Zealand service at Chunuk Bair on Wednesday.
Through that role he was asked to play the Last Post at the dawn service.
"It is something I never thought I would have the opportunity to do but I am so thankful I was asked to play and honour our fallen through the Last Post," he told the Chronicle from Turkey.