Social distancing measures associated with the coronavirus pandemic meant we have had to commemorated Australia's servicemen and women in previously unthought of ways.

Across the country we lit candles in our driveways at 6am as part of the Returned Services League's "Light Up The Dawn" campaign.

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The Last Post was just not the bastion of the bugle as trumpets, French horns, bagpipes and so many more instruments joined in the commemorations.

Here's how dawn broke across parts of regional Australia on Anzac Day 2020.

TAMWORTH, NSW: In the cold, crisp air of the morning, Tamworth residents gathered at the end of their driveways for the rising of the sun, remembering our fallen veterans and serving soldiers.

BALLARAT, Vic: Bugler Dennis Hawkes was at Golden Point and from the reactions on The Courier's Facebook page, the Last Post drifted across Ballarat and to an appreciative audience.

BEGA, NSW: John Winson of the Bega District Band, Anzac Day 2020, shared the Last Post with his community - and beyond. Grateful people from as far afield as Bundaberg and Valla Beach commented on the Bega Districts News' Facebook page.

WOLLONGONG, NSW: In Mount Ousley, the sound of siblings Craig and Yasmine Russell playing the Anzac songs and Australian and New Zealand Anthems on their bugle and harp drifted across the dawn.

You can relive equally moving moments from a number of communities across the nation. Here's how they commemorated in: