WA honours Anzacs

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About 40,000 people have gathered on a crisp, still morning for the Anzac Day dawn service at the West Australian War Memorial in Perth.

They came to honour the servicemen and women who fought and died for Australia.

The Last Post played by a soldier rang through the half-light.

As the sun rose across the city, wreaths were laid for the fallen.

The crowd is now making its way to the Anzac march which is scheduled to start at 9:30am.

Surviving veterans will be honoured this morning as they march through the heart of Perth.

Well attended

Services have also been well attended in Albany and Broome which each attracted crowds of up to 2, 000 people.

99-year-old Phyllis Burns travelled from Rockingham, south of Perth, to Broome for the service and says remembers being evacuated during the Japanese air raids of the town in 942.

"I had to sleep on the hatch of bananas and I had a little boy 16 months and the stewards spliced a rope so I could sit on the deck and he had a chance to toddle around," she said.