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The crosses represents all the ANZAC soldiers that died in  the fight

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The crosses represents all the ANZAC soldiers that died in  the fight

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Each of the more than 1600 crosses, placed for annual Anzac Day commemorations, represent a Cantabrian who had died in World War I at this point a century ago.

Last year, there were 680 planted. Next year there will be hundreds more as fatalities from the 1916 Battle of the Somme are added to the Canterbury death toll.

The crosses will provide a poignant backdrop for the Anzac Day ceremony in Cranmer Square at 6.30am on Monday.

Christchurch RSA president Pete Dawson said veterans, family members paying tribute to loved ones, emergency service and military personnel would march from Armagh St led by the New Zealand Army Band at 6.15am.

The march into Cranmer Square would be led by Canterbury's oldest living veteran, Bill Mitchell. The 103-year-old Air Force veteran would lead the procession in an army jeep.

Dawson said the crosses showed the scale of human loss in the first global conflict of the last century.

"It brings everything into context and shows the tragedy that was World War I.

"It covers a large area of the square and it is going to get larger in the next couple of years."

Dawson said Cranmer Square was used for the ceremony, rather than the cenotaph in Cathedral Square, because more space was needed to accommodate attendees. The cenotaph is also inside the safety barriers surrounding the earthquake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral.

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It was in the First World War that the image of the Salvation Army chaplain, tending to the physical and spiritual needs of the Diggers wherever they were, was truly forged. The Salvation Army was already becoming widely identified as 'Christianity with its sleeves rolled up', and men like 'Fighting Mac' McKenzie typified that image.
As chaplain to the 1st Infantry Brigade, Fighting Mac went ashore with the troops at Gallipoli. He saw horrors no man should see. He accepted responsibility with which no man should be burdened. In one three-day period, Fighting Mac conducted 647 funeral services. He was constantly in the front line -- after one funeral service he found three bullet holes in his hat. A grateful government awarded him the Military Cross for his work, a gallantry honour virtually unheard of for a military chaplain.

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t is appropriate to mark the establishment of a field of white crosses with a ceremony.

We recommend that your Field be laid out prior to any ceremony although you may wish to ceremonially lay one last cross e,g, that of the soldier “Known only to God”.
You may wish to invite the New Zealand Defence Force to help set up your field or involve them in any commemoration or events around Anzac Day.

The Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association have developed a DIY tool-kit to deliver commemorative ceremonies.
The toolkit includes protocols, a suggested order of service and sound files. Please click here to access.