A remembrance service will take place on the Weymouth seafront to honour the wartime efforts of Australian and New Zealand personnel. 

Weymouth Town Council is inviting public to attend its annual Anzac Memorial Service, at 11am on Thursday, April 25. 

The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) Day, is held every year on April 25, marking the anniversary of the First World War Gallipoli landings.

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The wreath laying service commemorates the thousands of Australian and New Zealand volunteer service personnel who passed through camps and hospitals in Dorset during the First World War between battles in the Middle East and those on the Western Front in Europe.

Commander Brett Fotheringham from the Royal New Zealand Navy and Lieutenant Commander Courtney Bahr from Royal Australian Navy will be in attendance. 

Jane Biscombe, town clerk at Weymouth Town Council, said: “The Anzac service always carries a deeply poignant significance. It takes place opposite the Prince Regent Hotel, which was once Burdon’s Military Hospital where soldiers were evacuated from the beaches of Gallipoli to recover from the traumas of war.  

“The service on Thursday 25th April is open to anyone to attend in recognition of the sacrifices made by personnel of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.” 

The short service will be carried out by the Rev’d Betty Port at the Anzac Memorial on the seafront opposite the Hotel Prince Regent.