Angus honoured the war dead during Scotland’s ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) commemoration.
The event took place at the Western Cemetery in Arbroath.
Australian and New Zealand forces took part in the landing at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915, determined to overwhelm the Ottoman Turkish defenders. Eight months later the Allied forces were evacuated. Over 11,000 ANZACs had been killed.
In 1916, April 25 was officially named ANZAC Day. Over 2000 Australian and New Zealand soldiers marched through the streets of London that year, and a newspaper dubbed them the knights of Gallipoli.
Arbroath’s Western Cemetery has become the focus for ANZAC Day commemorations in Angus as four New Zealand airmen from the Second World War-Frederick Batten, Richard Chettle, William Drake and Brian Patterson -are buried there.
The ceremony was attended by a representative from the New Zealand High Commission in London and local civic dignitaries.
The Arbroath Instrumental Band provided music, and a piper played the specially commissioned lament They Watch Over Scotia Still, written by NZS Scotland piper Jim Fitzpatrick.
