Regional Western Australia was awash with people paying their respects to diggers past and present during Thursday's Anzac Day parades and services.
More than 3000 people lined the streets of Bunbury for the town's dawn service and parade which was followed later by a morning service which saw crowds swell even further.
The townfolk of Esperance also turned out in droves to pay tribute to the Anzacs with a mid-morning march and service.
Returned and Services League president George Starcevich welcomed all to what is now the 98th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing.
Guest artist Bottom of the Barrel entertained the crowd with a rendition of And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda and We are Australian.
Meanwhile in Moora a memorial service was held on Moora Miling Road where a commemorative plaque, representing where 14 soldiers were killed by a mortar bomb on March 16, 1943, has been displayed.
Collie schoolchildren played a role in the town's Anzac Day proceedings by placing wreaths at the war memorial.
Further down south in Margaret River groups of Anzac Day participants assembled at Reuther Park before marching down the main street towards Memorial Park as enthusiastic onlookers clapped for them while Augusta's Anzac Day ceremony was very well attended.
Hundreds gathered in Mandurah and Pinjarra for local services while the people of Merredin showed their respects by attending a march and morning ceremony.
In Donnybrook the community proudly supported those who have fought and are still fighting for Australia by attending the town's annual Anzac Day parade.
Northam's Anzac Day events included a parade down the main street and a service which proved popular.
Anzac Day services in Busselton and Dunsborough also drew huge crowds, with Busselton's dawn service and parade, later in the morning, being one of its best attended.
Sailor gets lucky twice
A Busselton war veteran has revealed he cheated death not once but twice during World War 2.
Read his story here.
Anzac history gets digital treatment
A statewide digital history has been launched to coincide with this year's Anzac Day.
From metropolitan Perth to the Outback, the project took two years to detail WA's 120-plus Returned and Services League sub-branches formed since the organisation's beginnings in May 1916.
To read more about the project click here.
Brenda's D-day tale
A Busselton woman was stationed at Morecambe in Lancashire, but was moved to the Blake Hill Farm to work as an ambulance driver, just prior to the D-Day assault.
At the time the location of the base was a closely guarded secret, and Brenda said the road-signs nearby were removed to further conceal the location from even armed forces.
Read more of Brenda's extraordinary story here.
Seaman speaks out from Middle East
A ROYAL Australian Navy seaman from Lakelands spoke to the Mandurah Mail from his base in the Middle East about what Anzac Day means to him.
Read what he had to say here.
Stroke of fate sets life course
It is a leather-bound Bible, the New Testament, small enough to fit into the pocket of a soldier's uniform, over his heart.
Inside the cover, written with a pretty hand, the delicate inscription reads: "To my darling Will with fondest love from your true love Alice, August 5, 1915.
Read about a wartime hero who's legacy lives on here.
Forgotten Pinjarra soldier a war hero
A forgotten Pinjarra soldier was one of the infamous ‘Rats of Tobruk’, discovered by Canning MP Don Randell on a trip to Egypt.
A farm labourer from Fairbridge Farm, Lance Corporal (LCPL) Phillip Mann, was one of about 500 Fairbridge children in the armed forces in World War II.
Read more about Lance Corporal Mann's story here.
Anzac Day football
Essendon defeated Collingwood at the MCG and Sydney beat St Kilda in New Zealand in the Anzac Day AFL matches.
