"They joined her in this private remembrance and the men later resolved to hold a dawn service the following year", Mr Miller told the crowd.
It goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915 to remember all Australians who served and died in war and on operational service.
Some these airmen lost their lives while supporting the jungle fighters and now lie buried in the Chittagong and Comilla war cemeteries.
Cr Dobie served in the Australian Army at a time when women were not deployed to fight on the frontline. The peninsula has become a site of pilgrimage for visitors from Australia and New Zealand in particular, who honor their fallen in graveyards halfway around the world on Anzac Day each year.
And we honour the families whose sons never returned home, those mothers who gave their sons to war.
The most revered ceremony to take place on Anzac Day is the dawn service, an early morning military service.
A dawn service was held in London at the Australian war memorial in Hyde Park corner at 5am today.
It will be my privilege to share the occasion with the hundreds of New Zealanders who have travelled across the globe to attend.
New Zealand troops served in both battles in the Belgian towns, and 2017 marks 100 years since those conflicts on the Western Front.
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Anzac Day was etched into my psyche from a child as the day to watch the march in Adelaide on TV and look for great Uncle Harry.
Although most of us will not take the bluster of North Korea too seriously, Anzac Day 2017 comes just days after the administration in Pyongyang threatened Australia with nuclear attack for "blindly and zealously toeing the United States line".
The trophies and medals were presented by Minister for Veterans' Affairs, the Honourable Dan Tehan MP, who was in Villers-Bretonneux for the Anzac commemorations.
It was also a wet affair in Melbourne, where Victoria Cross recipient Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith urged Australians to help support our modern-day veterans after they leave the defence force and settle into new careers.
"This peninsula of war is now a place of friendship and healing", she said.
I'm not a religious man but if I was, Anzac Day would be my hours of worship.
"The relationships I established in the military I will have for my whole life because you do work in such a close environment around the clock".
"We know we have over 1000 soldiers buried here and at least 15 nurses, and we would really like to show that we do remember their service and sacrifice", Ms DeJong said.
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