Crescent Head was packed for this morning's ANZAC Day service, as hundreds of people attended to pay their respects and remember those who served our country.
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The commemorations began with a march along Crescent Head road to the cenotaph.
The service included the reading of the ode, the Last Post and the Crescent Head Public School's choir led the crowd in singing a rendition of Waltzing Matilda and the Australian national anthem.
Anzac Day marks the first landing of "diggers" from the Australian Imperial Force at Gaba Tepe, now known as Anzac Cove, on April 25, 1915.
Twenty thousand Australian soldiers landed just before dawn on the Gallipoli peninsula.
By nightfall, 747 of those soldiers would lie dead on the beach or close by in the surrounding steep cliffs, killed by Turkish troops.
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