Australia and New Zealand commemorate war dead on Anzac Day

Naval personnel march during the Anzac Day parade in Sydney, Australia (Mark Baker/AP)

Australians and New Zealanders paid tribute to their war dead on Sunday as both nations prepared to withdraw from their longest war in Afghanistan.

The neighbouring countries commemorate Anzac Day every April 25, the date in 1915 when the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on Turkey in an ill-fated campaign that provided the soldiers’ first combat of the First World War.