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Anzac Day 2021: Services and events in New Zealand s main centres
24 Apr, 2021 08:00 AM
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Bill Rimmer sounds the Last Post during a remembrance of the fallen soldiers at Auckland s O Neill s Point Cemetery on Anzac Day 2020. Photo / Brett Phibbs
Bill Rimmer sounds the Last Post during a remembrance of the fallen soldiers at Auckland s O Neill s Point Cemetery on Anzac Day 2020. Photo / Brett Phibbs
NZ Herald
New Zealanders can return to more traditional ways of commemorating Anzac Day this year, after Covid-19 restrictions last year forced Kiwis to mark the anniversary without gathering in public for the first time since 1916.
Instead of dawn services and memorials, this time last year Kiwis stood at the end of their driveways to remember those who served and lost their lives at war.