Created: Apr 27, 2026 07:53 AM (Updated: Apr 27, 2026 09:42 AM)
The island's Australian and New Zealand community, along with local dignitaries, convened at Victoria Park on Saturday morning for the annual Anzac Day sunrise service at the First World War Memorial to honour those who lost their lives (Photograph by David Skinner)
Bermudian-based Australians and New Zealanders gathered at dawn in Hamilton to pay tribute to their countrymen who fought and died in battle.
The service for Anzac Day, held each April 25 to mark the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in 1915 during the First World War, was joined by dignitaries in front of the First World War memorial in Victoria Park at daybreak on Saturday.
Roughly 16,000 soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps were part of an allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula.
They landed on the shores at dawn 111 years ago, when they met resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defenders.
The memorial service is replicated each year throughout the world.
The island's Australian and New Zealand community, along with local dignitaries, convened at Victoria Park on Saturday morning for the annual Anzac Day sunrise service at the First World War Memorial to honour those who lost their lives (Photograph by David Skinner)
The island's Australian and New Zealand community, along with local dignitaries, convened at Victoria Park on Saturday morning for the annual Anzac Day sunrise service at the First World War Memorial to honour those who lost their lives (Photograph by David Skinner)
The island's Australian and New Zealand community, along with local dignitaries, convened at Victoria Park on Saturday morning for the annual Anzac Day sunrise service at the First World War Memorial to honour those who lost their lives (Photograph by David Skinner)
