Here is your guide to services on Sunday, April 25 and how you can participate in paying respect to ex-servicemen and women who have served for Australia - many who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Dawn Service: 5.45am, Town Square cenotaph, end of Horton Street, Port Macquarie

The dawn service will be a scaled down event this year with a short service at the cenotaph followed by The Last Post, Reville, prayer and laying of wreaths.

Because of the scaled down version of this dawn service event, Hastings residents are also encouraged to Light Up The Dawn along their own streets or neighbourhoods as a mark of respect.

March and main service: 10am along Horton Street, Port Macquarie to the cenotaph.

Those participating in the march are advised to gather down the southern end of Horton Street and in William Street from 9am. All march participants will be required to sign in with the Service NSW app under COVID regulations.

The march will commence at 10am and proceed northwards along Horton Street to the cenotaph in Port Macquarie's Town Square.

The main commemoration service will start at 11am at the cenotaph. Seating will be reserved for veterans and VIP guests only.

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Dawn service: The traditional dawn service march will only be for pre-registered veterans with the marchers COVID-checked and registering from 4.45am at the RSL club; assembling by 5.20am in Young Street and leaving the RSL at 5.30am.

March and main service: Current guidelines for the spacing of people around the cenotaph is capped at 400.

The public is invited to observe the marchers at 10.30am along the traditional route east from the end of Young Street, turning south into Cameron Street and then west along the Oxley Highway to the cenotaph.

To achieve this compliance to the Anzac Day COVID-19 Safety plan, people wishing to march at the main service will need to be either a veteran or related to a veteran and wearing their relative's medals on their right side.

Any person wishing to lay a wreath, will also need to be registered.

Sign-in for pre-registered marchers and wreath layers will open from 9am and close at 10.15am at the RSL club to enable marchers to assemble in Young Street.

Registrations can be made through the link on the Wauchope RSL sub-Branch Facebook page or by emailing wauchopesb@rslnsw.org.au for a form, or in person at the Wauchope RSL Club.

Dawn service: The official dawn service will be hosted at the cenotaph in Laurie Park at 5.30am by Laurieton RSL sub-Branch.

Coffee will be on offer at Laurieton United Services Club at 4.45am and the club will be open at 9am for members attending and marching in the Anzac Day commemorations.

March and main service: Members will assemble for the march at 10.20am outside the club in Seymour Street before moving off at 10.30am for Laurie Park. The Vintage Car Club will provide transport for ex-service personnel unable to march.

The main service will be held at the cenotaph from 11am. If weather is unfavourable, the service will be held undercover in the LUSC.

People unable to stand for the service and requiring seating, are requested to bring along their own chairs.

The official luncheon will be held at 12.30pm, by ticket only, at the Laurieton RSL sub-branch.

Dawn service: The Kendall RSL sub-Branch will place wreaths at the Kendall cenotaph from 4.45am before the Anzac Day dawn service at 5.30am in the auditorium of the Kendall Services and Citizen's Club.

The service will be followed by the Anzac Day breakfast from 6am (bookings preferred, $10 per person).

Main service: The Anzac Day commemoration service held in the auditorium from 10am to 11.30am.

Prominent songwriter Mark Cryle and acoustic guitarist Michael Fix will be performing Australian stories in song at Kendall Community Centre from 3pm.

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