2026 Calendar of events
25 April Anzac Day
FFFAIF has traditionally supported AWWOD organising descendants’ participation in the Sydney Anzac Day March.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 FranceSaturday 23 May Australian Western Front Association, Gallipoli Association, Fromelles Association, FFFAIF Lecture Day
Sunday 19 July Fromelles Day Commemoration in Sydney at the Anzac Memorial and
Melbourne Wreath-laying at the Shrine of Remembrance and Ipswich in QueenslandSunday 26 July Pozieres Service St Columba Woollahra TBC
Saturday 26 September Commemoration of the Battles of 3rd Ypres
Monday 19 October War Widows Day
Saturday 7th November FFFAIF AGM and John Laffin Memorial Lecture Day
Venue: Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney and AGM On-line Zoom MeetingWednesday 11 November Remembrance Day
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Recent News
- Fromelles Day 2026 – Commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
- DIGGER 94
- VALE Dame Marie Bashir: Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir, AD CVO
- Patron-in-Chief Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
- DIGGER 93
- 2025 FFFAIF Annual General Meeting and John Laffin Memorial Lecture series
- DIGGER 92
- Fromelles Day 2025 – Commemorating the 109th anniversary in Sydney of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
Author Archives: FFFAIF
*2009 AGM
Families and Friends of First AIF Inc Annual General Meeting Saturday 10th October 2009 at Army Museum Bandiana Wondonga, Victoria. Full details of the AGM are available to FFFAIF members in the Member’s Area in Trench News under Member Updates. ***** … Continue reading
Book Auction 6 Sept.
The John Laffin Memorial Fund (JLMF) is again the beneficiary of the generosity of Craig Laffin and his family. Craig has donated a collection of books from the professional library of his father, the late John Laffin. These books include soldiers’ stories … Continue reading
*DNA arrives in UK
The Australian Army Fromelles Project update released on 24 August 2009 reports on progress to date and the Media Day held at Pheasant Wood recently. Photo: Media observing archaeologists at work. [Australian Army] The update also reports that: a significant … Continue reading
*The last day of WW1
SBS TV Friday 28th August 2009 at 8.30pm “As It Happened: The last day of World War 1″ The BBC program description is: Broadcaster Michael Palin tells the story of how the First World War ended on 11th November 1918 … Continue reading
Fromelles reporting…
Media reports on Fromelles continue: Fromelles report unearth’s conflicting views: Richard Wright Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 2009. Fromelles dig ignores hurtful attack: The Australian, 21 August 2009. Fromelles – Recovering Overseas Australia’s … Continue reading
Fromelles status
Following the Fromelles Project being the subject of a number of press articles as reported in RECENT NEWS items Fromelles in news and Archaeological Debate, the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, The Hon. Greg Combet AM MP made a detailed … Continue reading
*Archaeological Debate
The archaeological techniques being employed by Oxford Archaeology at the Pheasant Wood, Fromelles site for the exhumation of the remains of World War 1 soldiers buried by the German Army has recently been criticised in the Australian Press. This has … Continue reading
*Book Links No. 1
RECENT NEWS Item: Book Auction 23 August listed the books for auction on eBay to raise funds for the FFFAIF Inc. with the final bidding taking place on Sunday 23 August. The books currently being auctioned can be seen on eBay by clicking … Continue reading
AWM Honour Roll Photos
The Australian War Memorial is home to The Australian Roll of Honour which records and commemorates the names of Australia’s war dead. It takes the form of bronze panels in the Memorial’s Commemorative Area and the Roll of Honour database, which is … Continue reading
Fromelles in news
Media reports claim that the ability to identify the remains of the British and Australian soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood near Fromelles is being compromised by the timetable to lift all of the remains by the end of next month … Continue reading