Australia and New Zealand honor their war dead with dawn services on Anzac Day

By ROD McGUIRK
Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon attended a dawn service in his country’s largest city, Auckland, on Thursday. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saw the sun rise at a World War II memorial in the wilds of Australia’s nearest neighbor, Papua New Guinea. April 25 is the date in 1915 when the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the beaches of Gallipoli in Turkey in an ill-fated campaign that was the soldiers’ first combat of World War I.