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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Author Archives: FFFAIF
*ANZAC DAY, Bullecourt, France. '09.
Yves Fohlen, FFFAIF member in France continues his report from ANZAC Day with an account on the commemorations at Bullecourt. (50o11’33.47”W, 2o55’38.87”E). Yves’ report on ANZAC Day Dawn Service can be read by clicking here. ANZAC Day Bullecourt, France I … Continue reading
*ANZAC Day: Ieper, Belgium. '09.
Continuing with our series of reports on Anzac Day commemorations around the world in 2009, we are featuring a photographic record of the Service at Menin Gate, Ieper. (50o51’07.22”N, 2o53’25.65”E). ANZAC Day – Menin Gate The ANZAC Day service was … Continue reading
*ANZAC Day: Coolah, NSW. '09.
Coolah WWI exhibition Coolah is a small town in country New South Wales. (31o42’25.23” S, 149o43’12.6”E) On Anzac Day 2009, Graeme Hosken, the editor of DIGGER, travelled to Coolah, NSW, to view the town’s launch of its display on WWI … Continue reading
Fromelles Ceremony
Pheasant Wood Ceremony Tuesday 5 May 2009 Chris Munro in Fromelles A small crowd of about 70 people gathered at Pheasant Wood under cloudy skies to witness the turning of the first sod of earth which marked the commencement of … Continue reading
Fromelles Dig Begins
The quest to recover and identify the remains of the Australian and British soldiers buried by the Germans following the Battle of Fromelles of 19-20 July 1916 moves to a new phase this week with the commencement of the exhumation process. … Continue reading
ANZAC DAY 2009
Across Australia in small country towns to capital cities and throughout the world people have gathered to commemorate ANZAC Day on 25 April. FFFAIF members were present at services around the country and across the world – from northern Queensland … Continue reading
*ANZAC Day: Mackay, Qld. '09.
FFFAIF member Mike Goodwin reports from Mackay, north Queensland ( 21° 8’40.70″S, 149°10’52.47″E) ANZAC Day – Mackay 2009 No other event unifies the Mackay community as much as the city’s Anzac Day observances. This year, on a typically warm, sunny autumn day, … Continue reading
*ANZAC Day: Sydney, NSW. '09.
Continuing our coverage across Australia in small country towns and capital cities and throughout the world where people have gathered to commemorate ANZAC Day on 25 April. FFFAIF members have been reporting from northern Queensland to Victoria and across the … Continue reading
*ANZAC Day: Croydon, Vic. '09.
Continuing our coverage across Australia in small country towns and capital cities and throughout the world where people have gathered to commemorate ANZAC Day on 25 April. FFFAIF members have been reporting from northern Queensland to Victoria and across the … Continue reading
Fromelles Site Works
Major General Mike O’Brien, the senior Australian Army Officer with responsibility for the investigation and recovery of any Australian War Dead at Fromelles, recently outlined at the FFFAIF Regional Meeting at Bathurst, the broad timetable for the development of the … Continue reading