At the dawn service - Bugler, MUSN Ashley Van Gaalen, AAB-Brisbane.

Bougainville's peace monitors watched dawn break over the South Pacific Ocean recently as a part of Australia and New Zealand's traditional ANZAC Day commemorations.

About 200 people gathered at the mouth of Loloho Harbour for a traditional dawn service followed by a gunfire breakfast. During the service Commander PMG Brigadier Michael Swan said Bougainville was a fitting place to remember those who had served their countries in time of need.

'Bougainville was an integral part of the South-West Pacific theatre during WW II, a theatre in which many Australians, New Zealanders and Fijians were mortally or grievously wounded,' BRIG Swan said. 'Neither should we forget we commemorate ANZAC Day in the company of our Bougainville friends, many of whose forebears gave such loyal service to our ANZAC forefathers during the war as they do us in the PMG today.'

The day's commemorations culminated with a dinner at the Loloho facility for local personnel. PMG members operating in teamsites held their own ANZAC Day services and encouraged the local population to join in on the special day.