In pictures: Anzac Day

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A member of the Mudgeeraba light horse troop takes part in the ANZAC dawn service at Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club on 25 April, 2014 in Gold Coast, Australia
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Australia and New Zealand are marking Anzac Day, on the 99th anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing at Gallipoli in World War 1.
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Anzac Day is when Australia and New Zealand remember their war dead and commemorate their veterans.
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Events were held across both countries, as well as in other parts of the world, in remembrance of those who fought and died in wars.
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The term Anzacs refers to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, who suffered huge losses at Gallipoli in Turkey in a failed allied assault in 1915.
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More than 11,500 Australian and New Zealand soldiers died during the Gallipoli campaign. The defeat on the Aegean coast is widely seen to have forged the nations' characters.
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In this picture, Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel carries a wreath during a dawn service parade at Cranmer Square.
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A veteran takes part in an annual Anzac Day parade held in Sydney.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who are visiting Australia, laid a wreath during an Anzac Day service in Canberra.
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Services were also held around the world to commemorate the fallen soldiers. This ceremony took place at the Cenotaph in Hong Kong.
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A man places a poppy on a headstone at the Jakarta War Cemetery.
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Soldiers take part in a dawn ceremony marking Anzac Day at the Kranji War Memorial in Singapore.