1998: This day is celebrated all around the world as Anzac Day - the day Australian and New Zealand forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. In Peterborough this day is observed for ANZAC forces in general, but one - Sergeant Thomas Hunter - is commemorated in particular. Thomas died in Peterborough Infirmary on 31 July 1916 as a result of serious injuries received in the Battle of the Somme earlier that summer. This day in 1998 saw a very special service at the Broadway Cemetery Memorial, when six of Thomas Hunter's relatives were in attendance for the very first time. (Harvey, John W., The Lonely Anzac, Birches Publishing, 2003)

Taken from The Peterborough Book of Days by Brian Jones, The History Press, 2014.