This year's Anzac Day Civic Service will be held at 9am on Wednesday, April 25 at Memorial Park, Tauranga, commemorating 103 years since the Battle of Gallipoli.

Free Park and Ride services will be available for the Tauranga Civic Memorial Service and the Mount Maunganui Dawn Service.

Groups wishing to march in the parade at Memorial Park are asked to assemble by 8.30am next to the Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre.

Organisations or groups that wish to lay a wreath during the service can email Kate Percy: anzacday@tauranga.govt.nz

If it is wet the service will be held at the Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre. Everything else will stay the same but there will be no parade.

A free Park and Ride service will be available from Tauranga Boys' College on Devonport Road to Memorial Park between 808.40am, with returning buses immediately following the service.

There is no additional car parking at Memorial Park, however Pak'nSave on Cameron Road has made its above-ground car park available for people attending the Anzac Day Civic Memorial Service.

Car parking for mobility cardholders only will be available outside the Queen Elizabeth Youth Centre.

Road closures will be in place on Fraser Street between 11th and 13th Avenues and on 11th Avenue between Fraser Street and Devonport Road (including the roundabouts) from 8-11am.

Overview of Anzac Day services:

Mount Maunganui Dawn Parade – Mount Maunganui Cenotaph

A free Park and Ride service for the Dawn Parade only will be available from Kawaka Street (behind Blake Park) to Maunganui Road (behind Mount Drury). Buses will depart from Kawaka Street between 5-5.50am, returning at the conclusion of the Dawn Service between 6.15-7.30am.

Road closures will be in place on Marine Parade between Commons and Banks Avenues from 5.55-7am and again from 9.25-11am. Maunganui Road will be one-way traffic (south bound) from the roundabout at Pacific Avenue to the roundabout at Salisbury and Banks Avenue.

Memorial Service – Mount Maunganui Cenotaph

Road closures will be in place on Marine Parade from 9.25-11am. In the event of poor weather, the memorial service will be held at the Mount Maunganui RSA.

Maunganui Road will be one-way traffic (south bound) from the roundabout at Pacific Avenue to the roundabout at Salisbury and Banks Avenue.

Tauranga Dawn Parade – Tauranga RSA Cenotaph

Memorial Service – Tauranga Memorial Park

Pyes Pa Remembrance Service – Pyes Pa Cemetery

Maketu Dawn Service – Maketu Cenotaph. 5.45am Assemble at Maketu Cenotaph, 6am Service commences

Te Puke Memorial Service – Te Puke War Memorial Hall. 10am Assemble on Jellicoe Street, opposite Kiwibank

Katikati Dawn Service and Memorial Service – Katikati Memorial Square

Dawn Service. 5.45am Assemble at Memorial Square, 6am Service commences.

Memorial Service. 10am Assemble at Uretara Domain, 10.30am March through the main street to Katikati Memorial Square, 11am Service commences followed by wreath-laying.

Waihi Beach Dawn Service and Parade – Waihi Beach RSA

Dawn service and parade. 6am Assemble at the Waihi Beach RSA. Followed by breakfast for $10 per person. Wreath Laying Service. 8am, assemble at Waihi Cemetery. Memorial Service. 9.30am Waihi Beach RSA.