Katikati turns out as services remember the Anzacs sacrifice
29 Apr, 2021 04:18 AM
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Returned Servicemen and Women stand at attention at the dawn service in Katikati.
Bay of Plenty Times
By: Chris Steel
Under an indigo dawn sky, Kelly Smith from the New Zealand Navy gave a chilling reminder of the human sacrifice of war at Katikati s Anzac Day Dawn Service in front of a 300-strong crowd at Memorial Square on Sunday.
The Lieutenant Commander said April 25 saw the first significant engagement of New Zealand troops in the First World War when they landed at Gallipoli.
By the end of that fateful day, more than 600 New Zealanders had been killed or wounded - more than in the three years of the South African Boer War.
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