Britain’s Princess Anne, New Zealand’s prime minister and Australia’s governor-general gathered near the World War I battlefields on Turkiye’s Gallipoli Peninsula for a dawn ceremony on Friday to remember the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who lost their lives in a tragic campaign 110 years ago.

The gathering took place near a beach where the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) first landed at Gallipoli at dawn on April 25, 1915. The ceremony kicked off with a mournful Maori lament setting the tone for the solemn observance.