The hundreds of Australian and New Zealander soldiers gunned down on landing on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey were commemorated yesterday at a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pietà military cemetery. Anzac Day is held on the anniversary of that fateful pre-dawn landing on April 25, 1915. The battle to hold the peninsula was one of the hardest, but ultimately futile, fought by the Allied troops at the onset of World War I.

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