Editing Anzac Day (section)

===Dawn service===
[[File:Anzacday08-1-.JPG|thumb|The wreath-laying at the 2008 dawn service at the Australian War Memorial at [[Hyde Park Corner]], London]]
A dawn service was held on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] by an Australian battalion on the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1916, and historians agree that in Australia dawn services spontaneously popped up around the country to commemorate the fallen at Gallipoli in the years after this. The timing of the dawn service is based on the time that the ANZAC forces started the landing on the Gallipoli peninsula, but also has origins in a combination of military, symbolic and religious traditions. Various stories name different towns as having the first ever service in Australia, including [[Albany, Western Australia]], but no definite proof has been found to corroborate any of them. In [[Rockhampton, Queensland]] on 26 April 1916, over 600 people attended an interdenominational service that started at 6.30&nbsp;am. However, the dawn service held at the [[Sydney Cenotaph]] in 1928 can lay claim to being the first of a continuous tradition.<ref name =ABCFF>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-24/the-anzac-day-dawn-service/6393456|title=Fact file: The origins of the Anzac dawn service|publisher=ABC News|location=Australia|date=24 April 2015|access-date=23 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123005847/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-24/the-anzac-day-dawn-service/6393456|archive-date=23 November 2018}}</ref> The 1931 service at the Cenotaph was the first attended by the Governor and representatives of state and federal governments.<ref name=Sydney/>

Dawn services were originally very simple and in many cases they were restricted to veterans only, to remember and reflect among the comrades with whom they shared a special bond. Before dawn the gathered veterans would be ordered to stand-to and a lone bugler would play the "[[Last Post]]". [[Two-minute silence|Two minutes of silence]] would follow, concluded with the "[[Reveille]]". In more recent times the families of veterans and the general public have been encouraged to take part in dawn services. Some of the ceremonies have also become more elaborate, incorporating hymns, prayer readings, laying of wreaths, laments and the playing of the [[Australian national anthem]], but others have retained the simple format of the dawn stand-to.<ref name=awmtradition/><ref name="AWM tradition"/><ref name=Defence>{{cite web|url=http://www.defence.gov.au/Ceremonial/AnzacDayHandyHints.asp|title=Anzac Day handy hints|access-date=22 November 2018|archive-date=22 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122050247/http://www.defence.gov.au/Ceremonial/AnzacDayHandyHints.asp|author=Australian Government, Dept of Defence}}</ref> The fourth stanza of [[Laurence Binyon]]'s poem "[[s: For the Fallen|For the Fallen]]" (known as the "[[Ode of Remembrance]]", or simply as "the Ode") is often recited.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-24/history-of-the-anzac-day-ode-or-remembrance/7353860|title=Anzac Day: The Ode of Remembrance is taken from the Laurence Binyon poem for the Fallen|last=McLoughlin|first=Chris|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=24 April 2016|access-date=23 November 2018|archive-date=23 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123112427/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-24/history-of-the-anzac-day-ode-or-remembrance/7353860}}</ref>
[[File:2013-04-25 AWM Anzac Dawn - Ben Roberts-Smith VC.jpg|thumb|[[Australian War Memorial]] Anzac Day [[#Dawn service|dawn service]], 25 April 2013. The crowd of around 35,000 people is addressed by [[Corporal]] [[Ben Roberts-Smith]] {{post-nominals|country=AUS|VC|MG}} who is reading stories and anecdotes from Australian service men and women relating to the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|war in Afghanistan]].]]