A dawn service in Cathedral Square will give residents a chance to remember New Zealand’s fallen soldiers on Anzac Day.
Thousands are expected to gather next to the Citizens’ War Memorial to mark New Zealand’s 1915 Gallipoli Campaign.
Veterans will meet at the Worcester Boulevard bridge at 6.15am on Friday 25 April and then parade the short distance to Cathedral Square for the traditional dawn service.
Deputy Mayor Pauline Cotter will join representatives of New Zealand’s armed forces to lay wreaths during the service, which starts at 6.30am. The New Zealand Army Band will then perform, concluding with the playing of the Last Post, a minute’s silence, and then the singing of the New Zealand national anthem.
Later on, at 10am, the Christchurch Citizen’s Service will be held at the Transitional Cathedral in Latimer Square.
Road closures will be in place for Oxford Terrace and the entrance to Cathedral Square off Colombo Street from 4am.
Anzac Day services will also be held around Christchurch and Banks Peninsula:
- Papanui: Papanui RSA, parking area, 1 Harewood Road, 9.30am
- New Brighton: Cenotaph, Marine Parade, 10.00am
- Heathcote: War Memorial (Martindale-Bridal Path-Flavell), 6.15am
- Cashmere: 19th Battalion and Armoured Regiment Memorial Victoria Park, 8.00am
- Lyttelton: Ware Memorial, Albion Square, 10.00am
- Diamond Harbour: Ware Memorial Hall, 10.30am
- Templeton: Templeton RSA, Banks Street, 11.00am
- Aranui: St Ambrose Church, 11.00am
- Sumner: RSA Memorial Gates, 11.00am
- Akaroa: War Memorial, 11.30am
- Little River: Community Hall, 9.30am
- Halswell: War Memorial/Domain, 9.00am
- Hornby: Hornby War Memorial, Hornby Primary School Ground, 190 Waterloo Rd, 9.00am
- Harewood: Harewood War Memorial, 721 Harewood Rd, 7.00am
- Waltham: Waltham Park Memorial Gates, 9.30am
- Riccarton: 20th Battalion Association, Jane Deans Close, 9.00am
- Ilam: University of Canterbury, Matariki Quad, 20 Kirkwood Ave, 10.00am
- Wigram: Airforce Museum, 45 Harvard Avenue, 12.00pm
