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Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 17:16.  Updated on Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 17:42.

 Photos by Pesi Fonua.

King Tupou VI lays a wreath at the cenotaph in Nuku'alofa on ANZAC Day. 25 April 2017.

The 102nd anniversary of the landing of ANZAC forces on the Gallipoli Peninsular, Turkey during World War One was marked with a Dawn Service at the Cenotaph, Pangai Lahi on Tuesday April 25.

Tongan soldiers joined the 1st New Zealand Expeditionary force, and 14 of them died in the battle fields of Gallipoli, Turkey and also in France and Palestine during the First World War.

The Dawn service was marked with the laying of wreath, led by HM King Tupou VI.

HE Sarah Walsh, New Zealand High Commissioner, Dawn Service, Nuku'alofa Cenotaph, ANZAC Day. 25 April 2017.
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