It was a day of lost medals for two World War II diggers on Thursday as Australia celebrated ANZAC Day.

Through the help of Facebook, 90-year-old Maurice Dore, who served in the New Guinea campaign, got back his three medals that were lost after he left a church service in Albury. When he noticed the medals were missing, he asked the help of local media.

The appeal somehow ended in Facebook where it was viewed by over 60,000 people hours after someone posted Mr Dore's appeal. Charlie Star, a student at the Tallangatta Secondary College, who read the appeal replied that the medals were turned over to a nearby RSL by an unknown person, which led to the veteran getting back his precious medals.

"I want them back because I earned them. They're not much good to anyone else and they're personal," The Sydney Morning Herald quoted the digger who served in Australia's Light Horse militia unit then deployed to New Guinea as part of the 9th Infantry Battalion.

He is one of the 20,000 former and current defence force personnel who participated in the 98th anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops in Gallipoli where they eventually lost the battle, but remain unforgotten.

Another digger, 82-year-old veteran who was not named, found out on Monday that his 13 service medals were stolen from his home in Sydney's west. The medals were for his service in the Korean and Vietnam wars.

The veteran went out with his wife on Monday morning to find his window broken, bedroom ransacked and things scattered on the floors as well as discovered his precious mementos missing.

When police officers at the Cabramatta command heard of the digger's situation, they passed the hat around and ordered a replica of the stolen medals from a local supplier on Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon, the medals were finished and delivered to the retired soldier's house.

It was the best solution the police could think while waiting for the thief to return the filched medals which could not be resold since the medals could not be reissued.

New Zealanders also celebrated ANZAC Day as could be seen in the following video.