Hundreds gathered to pay their respects at the ANZAC Day Dawn Service held at the Kempsey cenotaph this morning.
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The ANZAC commemorations began at 5.20am with a march across the Kempsey bridge before the Dawn Service was held at the East Kempsey Memorial.
The emotional service included the reading of the ode by Kempsey-Macleay RSL Sub-branch president Terry Hunt, the Last Post and hymns from the Kempsey District Silver Band.
Anzac Day marks the first landing of "diggers" from the Australian Imperial Force at Gaba Tepe, now known as Anzac Cove, on April 25, 1915.
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Twenty thousand Australian soldiers landed just before dawn on the Gallipoli peninsula.
By nightfall, 747 of those soldiers would lie dead on the beach or close by in the surrounding steep cliffs, killed by Turkish troops.
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