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
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- 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
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- Fromelles Day 2025 – Commemorating the 109th anniversary in Sydney of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
Author Archives: FFFAIF
Pte George Storey
In Honour of Private George R. Storey Photo: Private George Storey [David Storey http://www.polygonwood.com/] Western Australian FFFAIF member, Sandra Playle, has provided the website with an interesting newspaper article which completes the final chapter of the story of Private George … Continue reading
*3-D Battlefield Photos
Families and Friends of the First AIF Member Peter Morrissey of Coonabarabran, winner of the New South Wales 2008 Premier’s Westfield History Scholarship, has recently returned from his trip to Gallipoli and the Western Front. Photo: Peter Morrissey and daughter … Continue reading
*Gallipoli Podcasts
Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance conducts regular public lectures on a range of war related topics. Photo: Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne. [H. MacDonald] Recordings of many of talks are available to download, for a limited time, from the internet or by … Continue reading
*DNA Contractor appointed
It was announced on Tuesday 16 June 2009 on the Australian Army Fromelles Project website that the DNA Contractor for the Fromelles Project has been awarded to LGC Forensics to collect and analyse DNA samples from the remains of the the British and Australian … Continue reading
*Kids' Art on Display
To secure the construction site of the new Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Cemetery at Fromelles a fence has been constructed around the site. School children from France, Australian and United Kingdom were invited produce artwork to commemorate the service and sacrifice … Continue reading
Message from Lambis
”Thanks for your support’, from Lambis Engelzos AM Lambis Englezos is presently in Fromelles and following his appointment as a Member of The Order of Australia for ‘Service to the community through research and advocacy roles relating to Australian soldiers of … Continue reading
Aubers Ridge Service
Battle of Aubers Ridge The Battle of Aubers Ridge was fought by the British on 9 May 1915. British troops from General Sir Douglas Haig’s First Army took part in the action suffering 11,000 casualties in one day of fighting … Continue reading
Lambis Englezos AM
Congratulations to Lambis Englezos AM The 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List published today (8 June) proclaims that Lambis Englezos has been appointed a Member of The Order of Australia, within the General Division, for ‘Service to the community through research … Continue reading
*New CWGC Cemetery
The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Alan Griffin and the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Warren Snowdon media update on the new war cemetery at Fromelles was released on Wednesday 3 June. WORK STARTS ON NEW WAR CEMETERY AT FROMELLES … Continue reading
*End of an Era
THE LAST OF A GENERATION Private John Ross – We will remember him The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Alan Griffin, today expressed his sorrow at the passing of John ‘Jack’ Ross, the last remaining Australian to have served during the … Continue reading