For most, Perth's annual Anzac march is about honouring service men and women past and present but for five-year-old Ellie it's all about the music and seeing soldiers wearing their medals.
Ellie's grandmother Christine usually attends the dawn service in memory of her father who served in World War II.
But this year she took her grandchildren for the first time.
"Anzac Day is about remembering all the people who went to war and died so we've got a safe country," Christine told AAP.
Karen Bull's husband served in the army for 21 years and spent time in East Timor and New Guinea.
He now works at RAAF Base Pearce.
"He was away for three months each time when he was in the army," she told AAP.
"The last time he was away for five months and at that time I actually had triplets at home so that wasn't the best of times but we were looked after.
"The Defence Force has got everything in place to look after all of us back home."
Ms Bull's 16-year-old son marched as a cadet as his three now 13-year-old sisters watched on.
But Ms Bull said she was also there to honour her grandfather who fought in World War II and her great-grandfather who served during the First World War.
"We used to come to Anzac Day as children too," she said.
Noreen Reid also attends the march every year.
Her husband is a Vietnam veteran, while her father was in Darwin when the Japanese bombed and stormed the beaches of Tarakan in Borneo.
"My husband marches every year and the grandkids march too," she said.
An estimated 10,000 people lined the streets for the march.
