Australia celebrates and remembers on Anzac Day 2013 Picture: ADF Source: Supplied The World War I veterans may no longer be with us, but extracts from their war diaries and letters will be read aloud to crowds as they gather for a new-look dawn service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Please join us in honouring our Anzacs, past and present. Our Live Feed will begin national Dawn Service coverage from 4.30am AEST. Anzac Day in SA: Go to AdelaideNow Two prop horses and cast members of the stage play War Horse will feature in Anzac Day services at Sydney's Bondi beach and the Anzac memorial in Hyde Park. WWII RAAF mechanic Shirley Jolley celebrates her 92nd birthday with a flight over Adelaide in a bi-plane Anzac Day in NSW: Go to The Telegraph In Melbourne, Victorian RSL chief Michael Annett said the dawn service continued to attract young people without any direct ancestral links to veterans, swelling the expected crowd to 45,000. Anzac Day in Victoria: Go to The Herald Sun In Brisbane, 95-year-old Neil Russell, a veteran of the Middle East and the Pacific, will be just one of many living stories in the Queensland capital's march. As a 25-year-old first lieutenant, he helped stop the Japanese from taking Port Moresby in the 1942 Battle of Milne Bay. He says when the order came to fix bayonets and charge, his company "stormed the enemy stronghold." "And the Japs shot off like a Bondi tram," he said. Anzac Day in Queensland: Go to The Courier Mail A sword belonging to one of Australia's most inspiring battlefield commanders will be the centrepiece of the Anzac Day march in Perth. Brigadier Arnold Potts, who commanded the brigade that held back the Japanese advance during bitter fighting on the Kokoda Trail in World War II, wore the sword when he received a Military Cross decoration from King George V at Buckingham Palace in 1916 for serving on the Western Front. The sword will be held by his successor Lieutenant Colonel Rhogan Aitken, commanding officer of the Royal Western Australia Regiment's 16th Battalion, as he leads his troops through the city's streets. Anzac Day in WA: Go to PerthNow In Darwin, US Marines and Australian veterans are looking forward to marching alongside each other. About 200 US Marines are stationed in Darwin for the dry season for training, and two platoons of Americans, about 90 people, are set to take part in Anzac Day proceedings on Thursday. Anzac Day in the NT: Go to The NT News And in Tasmania, the bushfire-ravaged Tasmanian town of Dunalley will hold its first ever dawn service this Anzac Day. The town's RSL club was among more than 60 buildings razed when last summer's fires swept the oyster-growing community, 60km southeast of Hobart. Anzac Day in Tasmania: Go to The Mercury