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25 April 2011
Last updated at 03:24 ET
New Zealand's prime minister has taken part in a UK service to mark Anzac Day, in memory of the New Zealanders and Australians who died at war.
The date marks the ill-fated landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915.
John Key laid a wreath at the Australian War Memorial at a dawn service in London's Hyde Park.
Events are also taking place at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire and in Edinburgh.
The dawn ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Hyde Park at 0500BST was followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the New Zealand Memorial.
A wreath-laying service then took place at the Cenotaph in central London at 0800BST, attended by ex-servicemen. The High Commissioners for Australia and High Zealand laid the first wreaths.
A commemorative service is due to take place at Westminster Abbey at 0900BST.
Further commemorative events are due to take place in Salisbury, Peterborough, Chepstow, and Chilworth in Surrey and at the Dallachy Strike Wing memorial at Bogmoor, Morayshire.
More than 10,000 New Zealand and Australian servicemen died in the failed eight-month allied campaign in Gallipoli in World War I.
Anzac Day, which is marked across the world, also remembers personnel killed in subsequent conflicts.
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The date marks the ill-fated landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli in Turkey in 1915.
John Key laid a wreath at the Australian War Memorial at a dawn service in London's Hyde Park.
Events are also taking place at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire and in Edinburgh.
The dawn ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Hyde Park at 0500BST was followed by a wreath-laying ceremony at the New Zealand Memorial.
A wreath-laying service then took place at the Cenotaph in central London at 0800BST, attended by ex-servicemen. The High Commissioners for Australia and High Zealand laid the first wreaths.
A commemorative service is due to take place at Westminster Abbey at 0900BST.
Further commemorative events are due to take place in Salisbury, Peterborough, Chepstow, and Chilworth in Surrey and at the Dallachy Strike Wing memorial at Bogmoor, Morayshire.
More than 10,000 New Zealand and Australian servicemen died in the failed eight-month allied campaign in Gallipoli in World War I.
Anzac Day, which is marked across the world, also remembers personnel killed in subsequent conflicts.
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