PRESS RELEASE:
This year, the Dawn Service is scheduled on Friday 25 April 2025 with the ceremony starts at 05.30 am while the public can enter the complex from 03.00 am onwards. The service will be attended by senior military officials, ambassadors and Defence Attache from Australia and New Zealand as well as representatives from other counties. Following the service, all attendees are cordially invited to join the traditional Gunfire Breakfast with refreshments and snacks from Australian-Kiwi communities in Thailand.
Hellfire Pass Interpretive Centre is a memorial site established and maintained by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA), Australian Government. It is dedicated to those who were forced to work and build the railway connecting Burma and Thailand during the Second World War. Over 60,000 Allied prisoners worked on the railway, with approximately 12,500 lost lives, including British, Australian, Dutch, American and tens of thousands of Asian labourers (Romusha).
Anzac Day – a memorial service that honours and acknowledges all Australians and New Zealanders who served and sacrificed their lives in war. The Dawn Service on Anzac Day at Hellfire Pass is the only official memorial service in Thailand, that is jointly hosted by both the Australian and New Zealand Embassies.
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