Thursday 25 April 2019 ANZAC Day
Dawn Service
ANZAC Day March
Sydney contact for descendants:
Greg Cowle, President, Australian World War One Descendants (AWWOD)
Contact: greg@awwod.org.au
Commemoration at the Anzac Memorial
Sunset service at the Cenotaph, Martin Place
Saturday 27 April 2019 ANZAC Day
Australian branch meeting of the Western Front Association
Location: 99 York St, Sydney CBD, Level 2 (enter via public lobby and then take the lift).
Timings: 12:30 to 4:30pm.
“The Australian Nurses at Harefield Hospital, location of the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital”, Janette Pelosi and Dr Nicole Bray RN
“The Australian Society of World War One Aero Historians’ database of Australian airmen of the Great War”, David Perkins
“Captain Edwin Cowan, MC**, RFC, killed in action November 1916, aged 18 years: a biographical sketch using archival material”, Paul Simadas.
Subscription: $5 (to cover refreshments
Contact: Paul Simadas <wfaaustraliabranch@gmail.com>
Sunday 28 April 2019 ANZAC Day
Jewish Communal Anzac Day Commemoration & Wreath Laying Ceremony at 9.30 am for 9.45am
Sydney Jewish Museum, NSW Jewish War Memorial, 148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst.
The ceremony will take place in the presence of their Patron, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d) Governor of NSW, together with Mrs Hurley and the Occasional Address will be given by the State Governor’s immediate predecessor, The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO. FFFAIF is invited to lay a floral tribute. RSVP 17 April.
Contact: Roger Selby, President, NSW Association of Jewish Service & Ex-Service Men & Women
Roger Selby roger@selbyonline.com or najexsyd.gmail.com
Friday 31 May 2019 Boer War Day
Commemoration at the Anzac Memorial
27 May – 3 June, National Reconciliation Week
TBC, The Indigenous Veterans Commemoration Service at State War Memorial, Kings Park Botanic Gardens, Perth
TBC, The Indigenous Veterans Commemoration Service at ANZAC Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney
Friday 19 July Fromelles Day – Sydney
10:10 for Commemorative Procession from Archibald Fountain
10:40 for Commemoration at the Anzac Memorial
Contact: rsvp@fffaif.org.au
Friday 19 July Fromelles Day – Melbourne
1:30pm Wreath Laying at the Cobbers Statue, Shrine of Remembrance
Contact: TBA
Pozieres Day Commemoration, Sunday 21 July 2019, Sydney
9:30am at Saint Columba Uniting Church
corner Ocean and Forth Streets, Woollahra,
Contact: First Battalions Association
Saturday 27 July 2019 Fromelles Association AGM
at Singleton
Contact: Anne Benn, anne_benn@yahoo.com.au
Geoffrey Benn, Secretary, gvb456@gmail.com
Royce Atkinson, President, Fromelles Association
royceatkinson@hotmail.com
Saturday 10 August 2019, FFFAIF John Laffin Memorial Lecture series
Anzac Memorial, Sydney
Contact: rsvp@fffaif.org.au
Thursday 26 September 2019, Commemoration of the Battles of Third Ypres
10:40 for 11:00 Commemoration at the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney
Contact: rsvp@fffaif.org.au
Saturday 9 November 2019, FFFAIF AGM
9:45 for 10am Anzac Memorial Auditorium, Hyde Park, Sydney
Contact: rsvp@fffaif.org.au
Saturday 9 November 2019, WFA Branch Lecture Series
11:15 for 11:30am Anzac Memorial Auditorium, Hyde Park, Sydney
Contact: Paul Simadas, Co-Chair of the Western Front Association at wfaaustraliabranch@gmail.com
Sunday 10 November 2019 New Sutherland War Memorial to be unveiled
2pm Peace Park, Eton Street, Sutherland
Contact Clive Baker on 0424 235 885
warbookshop@bigpond.com
Monday 11 November 2019, Remembrance Day
10:10am for 10:25am Commemoration at
The Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney