43: In spring 1916, General Sir Tom Bridges won something unusual in a Red Cross Raffle in Paris - a lion.

Travel agents are warning of a rush for flights and accommodation for the 100th anniversary commemoration of Anzac Day in Gallipoli as 286 tickets remain unclaimed.

Craft groups, the RSA and crochet enthusiasts are getting behind an ambitious goal of making 5000 poppies by Anzac Day next year.

Survivor of the Anzac Day helicopter crash Sergeant Stevin Creeggan has endured years of pain and humiliating treatment from the Air Force, but his family are speaking out.

Air force commanders allowed a dangerous and deadly culture of rule-breaking that ultimately resulted in the deaths of three young airmen, a court has found.

The return of a contract to New Zealand to make Poppy Day poppies is being celebrated by veterans.

Minister of Veterans' Affairs Michael Woodhouse has upset a family by mistakenly claiming a link to the Gallipoli campaign.

New Zealanders gathered in their thousands to celebrate Anzac Day at dawn services around the country on Friday, and now attention turns to preparations for next year's centenary of the World War I Gallipoli campaign.

I don't normally feel aggrieved when I'm queuing for immigration checks at airports.

Communities came together at dawn services around the country yesterday to honour and remember Anzacs.

As a young boy Willie Apiata sat close to his grandfather on Anzac Day and was puzzled by the laughter that mixed with sadness, and eyes that "watered just a little bit".

It happens every year now on April 25: Maori Television morphs into our very own history channel, writes Greg Dixon

With his dad's medals proudly pinned to his chest, Julian Price waits to join the parade. Townsfolk are still spilling out of Mackenzie Community Centre in Fairlie, surprised to see rainclouds replaced by autumnal sunshine.

Thousands of New Zealanders and Australians have gathered at Gallipoli to pay tribute to the men who went through 'suffering and horrors' to carry out their duty.

One person died at today's dawn Anzac service in Wanganui.

On the day to remember the fallen, huge crowds gathered to pay their respects in Mt. Maunganui.

Watch highlights from the Auckland War Memorial Museum as thousands gathered to commemorate New Zealand's "contribution to freedom". courtesy Maori Television

At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

Married for just a month, he couldn't wait to enlist.

Kiwis commemorate April 25 as one today, from the child learning about war history, to the veterans who saw fighting at close quarters

Motor racing has always been a family affair for Aucklander Richard Moore.

'At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them." Another Anzac Day - although it's not the big one - next year will be the centennial of that dreadful exercise in military futility known in English as the Gallipoli Campaign.

The daughter of a World War I veteran is distraught after her father's medals were lost by a courier company.

Youth representatives and children of Gallipoli veterans will receive 100 special passes to Gallipoli Centenary celebrations next year.

A wet spell during Anzac Day will clear away by the weekend as a front departs and a large high builds across the country.