Anzac Day - Commemoration

Commemoration

In Australia and New Zealand, Anzac Day commemoration features solemn "Dawn Services" or "Dawn Parades", a tradition started in Albany, Western Australia on 25 April 1923 and now held at war memorials around both countries, accompanied by thoughts of those lost at war to the ceremonial sounds of The Last Post on the bugle. The fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen (known as the "Ode of Remembrance", or simply as "the Ode") is often recited.

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