Anzac Day - in pictures

A man clad in a first world war uniform walks among the graves at the Australian National Memorial during wreath-laying ceremonies in Villers-Bretonneux, northern France Photograph: Michel Spingler/AP/Getty IMages

Military veterans take part in the Anzac Day Parade in Sydney, Australia Photograph: Jennifer Polixenni Brankin/Getty Images

Members of the Mudgeeraba light horse troop take part in an Anzac Dawn service at Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club, Gold Coast, Australia Photograph: Chris Hyde/Getty Images

A child wearing an Australian flag walks past graves at the Australian War Memorial in the northern French town of Villers-Bretonneux Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images

Australians walk along Hellfire Pass, a railway cutting on the Burma-Siam Death Railway built during the Japanese occupation, after an Anzac Day memorial ceremony for soldiers who died during the second world war in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand Photograph: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

Second world war veterans Jack Langrell, left, and Charlie Sheen shake hands as they strike up a conversation in Sydney Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images

The annual dawn service in Anzac Cove, Gallipolli in commemoration of the ill-fated campaign on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula. Thousands of New Zealanders and Australians travel to Turkey each year for dawn services on 25 April Photograph: Ali Atmaca/Anadolu Agency/EPA

A soldier visits the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia Photograph: Lukas Coch/EPA

A veteran from Papua New Guinea marches with fellow veterans in Sydney as tens of thousands of Australians and New Zealanders gathered to honour their war dead Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images

Veterans during the Anzac Day Parade in Sydney, Australia Photograph: Jennifer Polixenni Brankin/Getty Images

Soldiers in uniforms for the Anzac Day parade in Brisbane, Queensland Photograph: Hanzhengyi Pan/Demotix/Corbis

Soldiers march past the Shrine of Remembrance to mark the Anzac Day, in Melbourne, Australia Photograph: Bai Xue/Xinhua/Corbis