2023 Calendar of events
Saturday 22 April WFA Seminar, with FFFAIF John Laffin Memorial Lecture
Tuesday 25 April Anzac Day
FFFAIF has traditionally supported AWWOD organising descendants’ participation in the Sydney Anzac Day March.In 2023 FFFAIF will encourage “Dawn drive-way vigils”.
The RSL is promoting ‘Light up the Dawn’ gatherings on driveways and balconies and ABC Radio coverage of the Canberra Dawn Service and National Ceremony will be heard on local ABC Radio, RN and on the ABC Listen app from 5.30am – 6.00am. This will incorporate a minute’s silence at approximately 5.50am to synchronise the dawn drive-way vigils.
TV broadcasts of Sydney Dawn Service, Canberra Dawn Service and National Ceremony and Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance Service will all be live from 4.30am AEST on ABC TV and ABC NEWS channels, on iview, and streamed live on ABC Australia Facebook and YouTube.
State TV broadcasts of capital city marches and dawn services will also be streamed live on ABC capital city Facebook accounts and on the ABC’s capital city local radio websites.
Every capital city will have live coverage of a local march, however coverage of capital city dawn services will vary in each state. Broadcasts times can be found on the ABC Anzac Day website.
Gallipoli Day /ANZAC Day services will be held in the UK, including:
a Dawn Service at Hyde Park Corner and later the annual Service of Commemoration with a wreath laying at the Cenotaph followed by a Service held at Westminster Abbey;
Baverstock, Codford, Fovant and Sutton Veny on the Salisbury Plain; and
at about 15 other locations in England and Scotland;
Also at the Menin Gate, Ieper; and
Fromelles FranceWednesday 19 July Fromelles Day Commemoration in Sydney at the Anzac Memorial and
Melbourne Wreath-laying at the Shrine of Remembrance and Ipswich in QueenslandSunday 23 July Pozieres Service St Columba Woollahra TBC
Tuesday 26 September Commemoration of the Battles of 3rd Ypres
Thursday 19 October War Widows Day
Saturday 21st October FFFAIF AGM and WFA Lecture Day
Venue: Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney and AGM On-line Zoom MeetingSaturday 11 November Remembrance Day
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Recent News
- Fromelles Day Sydney 19 July 2023: Commemorative Procession from the Archibald Fountain to the Anzac Memorial
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- Commemorating the 105th anniversary of the Battles of 3rd Ypres in 2022
- Fromelles Day Sydney 19 July 2022: Commemorative Procession from the Archibald Fountain to the Anzac Memorial and Commemorative Service
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Author Archives: FFFAIF
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CONTENTS Articles Memoirs of Pte 1172 Clifford Sharman, 26th Bn, Part 1, Owen Cook 3-14 Analysis of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion at Hamel, 4 July 1918, Greg O’Reilly 15-19 ‘Sorry, you two Australian Mums’: the death of Gnr 3513 … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles Tour of a 35th Bn Company in the front line at Ypres, 1917, ‘Detonator’, AWM collection 3-6 Postscript: 35th Bn men killed 29 Sept to 4 Oct, 1917, Stephen Brooks 6-7 3rd Division AIF rest schedule, Mjr Gen … Continue reading
FFFAIF 2021 John Laffin Memorial Lecture, 25 September 2021
The John Laffin Memorial Lecture has been held annually since 2003. The Lectures honour the memory of the Founder of FFFAIF, Australian John Laffin who was one of the world’s most distinguished military historians. Both of John’s parents served with … Continue reading
Commemoration of the Battles of 3rd Ypres in 2021
43 Divisions of British and Dominion troops were involved in the Battles of Third Ypres. I ANZAC Corps, consisting of the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Australian Divisions, and II ANZAC Corps consisting of the 3rd Australian Division, the New … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles 2nd Lieut William Harold Treloar, AFC, Heather Ford 3-9 Sister Ella Lord, AANS, contrib. by Faye Threlfall 10-12 1916 letter: L/Cpl 1524 Frederick McCann, 15th Bn, found on Trove 12 Pte 1515 Eugene Sullivan, 9th Fld Amb, … Continue reading
Fromelles Day 2021 Commemorations @ Sydney, Melbourne and Fromelles
19 July was the 105th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles, the first engagement of the Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front following the withdrawal from Gallipoli. It was and remains the largest loss of Australian life in a … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles The PNG grave of Lieut Col Maurice Wilder-Neligan, 9th & 10th Bns, Greg Knight 3-7 Dvr 2098 Cecil Barram, 5th FAB, Lynora Conley 8-12 Nurses at the wartime wedding of Sr Nell Pike and Cpl 4414 Charles Laffin, … Continue reading
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Contents Articles L/Cpl 9641 Edward McCoy, AASC/43rd Bn, Peter Bartley 3-5 1918 letter: Pte 7444 George Parry, 42nd Bn, found on Trove 6-7 WWI poems of Spr NX6925 Herbert Beros, 2/6 FC RAE, Greg Knight 8-10 The Manly War Memorial, … Continue reading
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Contents Articles Family connections: Pte 4642 Robert Erickson, 13th Bn; Pte 2361 Harry Le Clerc, 3rd Bn; Sgt 639 Arthur Le Clerc, 13th Bn; Pte 13805 Harold Le Clerc, 4th FAmb; Spr 9902 Thomas Le Clerc, 9th FCE, L/Cpl 1528 … Continue reading
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Contents Articles Cpl 4633 Marcus Anderson, 11th Bn/2nd FSC RE, Andrew Pittaway 3-15 Pte 44 George Bonney, 32nd Bn, contrib. by Reg Bonney 16 Armistice Day 1918 memories, Pte 813 Jack White, 4th MG Bn 17 The work of the … Continue reading