Australia's most significant - and poignant - day

An Australian soldier lies wounded, as other soldiers move on the beach at Anzac Cove on the day of the landing. Credit: Fairfax Media/Getty Images

The 25th of April is ANZAC Day.

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It is perhaps the most important, and certainly the most poignant, day in the national life of Australia.

It's a day observed in many different ways at different times - from the historic, to the very serious, to the light-hearted.