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Many of you gathered in the rain for the Dawn Services around our region this morning to remember the fallen. In this special Anzac Day edition, we bring you the story and galleries from the Albury, Wodonga and Wangaratta services. See you at the march.
Hundreds turnout for Albury's Anzac Day dawn service, despite rain
Umbrellas were attached to hands like bayonets affixed to rifles at Albury’s dawn service. They shielded hundreds from rain, which proved a soundscape to rituals marking the 102nd anniversary of the Gallipoli landings. More here
Gallery: Albury Dawn Service 2017
Albury remembers them. View Gallery
Gallery: Wodonga Dawn Service 2017
Wodonga remembers them. View Gallery
Gallery: Wangaratta Dawn Service 2017
Wangaratta remembers them. View Gallery
State of the Nation
► WAGGA: Mystery shrouds the final moments of a Kooringal baby boy’s life after his sudden and tragic death on Monday.
Police arrested a 32-year-old man, believed to be a close relative, on the front lawn of a Henwood Avenue property shortly after 5am.
Neighbours claim he was “screaming and crying uncontrollably” as he was taken into custody. Read more.
► BALLARAT: Police have confirmed the reported daylight robbery of a disabled man is no longer being investigated.
The CIU was initially investigating a man’s claims that he was attacked by a group of youths when he was returning from a Sebastopol supermarket.
He told police he was frightened, knocked to the ground and robbed of $300 cash. Read more.
► WAUCHOPE: A Vietnam vet from Beechwood, who wanted to have a beer with a very special US comrade, has finally got some news, after sending out a call through the Wauchope Gazette last year.
Mal Butler was a Warrant Officer Class Two Adviser in South Vietnam in 1971, training soldiers how to ambush at night. Read more.
► TAS: Hellyer District Scouts will carry on the tradition of standing watch over the cenotaph in Burnie the night before Anzac Day.
It’s the third year the Scouts have performed the ritual where youth members stand at all four corners of the cenotaph from 6pm Monday evening until 5:55am Tuesday morning.
“To me it [Anzac Day] means we all gather to remember and commemorate about the people who fought in the wars,” Scout Gemma Fletcher,11, said. Read more.
► DUBBO: April 25 is a significant day for people all over the country as they commemorate Anzac Day, and for one returned serviceman in particular it holds an added element of importance.
Dubbo RSL Sub-Branch vice president Jeff Caldbeck will be joined by his son Brendan as the two generations of servicemen take part in Anzac Day services in Dubbo.
Mr Caldbeck teared-up as he explained the pride it brings to march next to his son; an experience he wishes he had shared more of with his own father who served in the artillery during WWII. Read more.
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National news
► On the eve of one of our nation’s most significant days, a retired serviceman wants Australia to get it right.
Shaun Buckney, from Brisbane, is the son of a soldier, his father having served in the Australian military for 32 years including time at Vietnam. Read more.
► Thousands have packed Martin Place for the Anzac Day dawn service, amid tightened security and a cloud of terrorism that appeared to have kept numbers below last year's crowds.
Thousands braved the dark to attend Tuesday's Anzac Day dawn service, marking 100 years since the worst losses of World War I when many families lost all of their sons within months, even days. Read more.
International news
Lance-Corporal Vivian George Taylor died in the aftermath of the battle of Le Hamel on July 5, 1918. Read more.
► FRANCE: Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old former banker who quit the Socialists for a remarkable tilt for France's presidency, has won the country's first-round vote, finishing just ahead of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.
The French Interior Ministry's final figures for the vote showed Macron winning 23.75 per cent of the vote, with Le Pen on 21.5. Read more.
On this day | April 25
► 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
► 1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
► 1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
► 1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
► 2015 – Nearly 9,100 are killed after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.
Faces of Australia: Harvey Bawden
Harvey Bawden was still a teenager, just 18 years old, when he enlisted in the Air Force in 1942.
After completing training in Australia, the young man from Pyramid Hill was sent to England to serve with the Royal Air Force’s Bomber Command.
There, in 1944, he became a gunner in a crew of seven men – six Australians and one Englishman - who flew a Lancaster on bombing missions over Germany. Read more.