Travellers remember fallen Anzacs at Gallipoli battlefields

Visitors attend the dawn service at Anzac Cove beach, site of the First World War landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps troops on April 25 1915 (Emrah Gurel/AP)

Travellers from Australia and New Zealand joined Turkish and other nations’ dignitaries at the former First World War battlefields at Gallipoli for a solemn service at dawn on Monday to remember troops killed during an unsuccessful British-led campaign that aimed to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.

As the sun rose, participants held a minute of silence to reflect on the sacrifices of tens of thousands of soldiers from the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, known as Anzacs, who landed on the beaches at Gallipoli, in north-west Turkey.