Wanganui people turned out in huge numbers for today's Dawn Parade, with RSA members reckoning between 3500-4000 crowded around the city's cenotaph for the Anzac Day remembrance.
The rain that threatened kept clear and temperatures were very mild for the service which began at 5.30am.
Those who did not march to the cenotaph from the War Memorial Centre, had already gathered around the Queens Park monument in their hundreds.
A feature of this year's services was again the large number of youngsters there with parents and grandparents.
The service was taken by Reverend Rosemary Anderson who said that any nation that sends its people into battle on their behalf "has to ask the same question: 'Are we worth dying for'".