Anzac Day live updates: Remembering the sacrifice of those who ...

Dawn services have been held to mark Anzac Day, with more services taking place around the motu throughout the day.

The National Commemorative Service will be held at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington at 11am.

A historian said Anzac Day has become Aotearoa's national day of unity, and he thinks it will remain so.

Rowan Light said a prediction that once the First World War veterans had all died, Anzac Day would die out too, has not come to pass.

The success of the commemorations was out of public interest in the stories of the Anzacs that continue to be told, he said.

A ceremony will be held on the Waitangi Treaty Grounds this evening to commemorate the members of the Māori Battalion.

The last surving member, Tā Robert Gillies, will present the Campaign and Battle Honours Memorial Flag at Te Rau Aroha Museum.

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