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
Memorial Way No. 9
Montrose War Memorial – Victoria. FFFAIF member Heather Ford has compiled this report on her local war memorial at Montrose, Victoria: The Montrose War Memorial was commissioned in 1921, and was originally located in the middle of the town’s main intersection … Continue reading
ANZAC Exhibition
The small NSW country town of Coolah, in conjunction with Anzac Day, will be holding an exhibtion on Coolah and District soldiers of First World War. The usual Anzac Day services at Coolah for 2009 will be supplemented with a … Continue reading
Connecting Spirit CD
FFFAIF member and leader of the ‘Connecting Spirits’ Group – a joint project involving students from Birdwood High and Meningie Area Schools, South Australia – Julie Reece extends an invitation to: THE LAUNCH THE ‘CONNECTING SPIRITS’ CD ORIGINAL SONGS WRITTEN … Continue reading
Briefing Room No. 8
In Briefing Room No. 8, we again join Stuart Curry as he travels through the Messines Ridge area, south of the Ypres salient. Previously Briefing Room No. 3 focussed on the Battle of Menin Road on 20-21 September 1917, Briefing … Continue reading
Dinner with Pompey
An invitation to Pompey Elliott Tribute Dinner at Ballarat College 1425 Sturt Street Ballarat on Saturday 18 April 2009 Tickets: $75, available from the school or Phone: 03 5330 8211. Speakers for the evening include Tony Charlton; John Brit – former VFL … Continue reading
*Fromelles Missing List
LIST OF FIRST AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE SOLDIERS BELIEVED BURIED AT FROMELLES The President of the Families and Friends of the First AIF, a group dedicated to keeping the memory alive of the Diggers who served in the First Australian Imperial … Continue reading
Memorial Way No.8
Allora, in country Queensland, 28km north of Warwick, (28o02’07.97S 151o58’49.49″) is the focus for this week’s Memorial Way. There are two World War 1 Memorials in the town. Located in Memorial Park is the town’s Memorial which was unveiled by … Continue reading
Briefing Room No. 7
Zonnebeke Chateau In Briefing Room No. 7, we re-join Stuart Curry as he travels through the Ypres salient. Previously Briefing Room No. 3 focussed on the Battle of Menin Road on 20-21 September 1917, Briefing Room No. 4 focussed on … Continue reading
2007 GUARD Report
Photo: Pheasant Wood Fromelles, April 2008 [Chris Munro] The Department of Defence has posted the 2007 report from Glasgow University on the non invasive investigation at Pheasant Wood Fromelles. Photo: Figure 8 from GUARD Report – Metal Detector Finds. The … Continue reading
V-B never forgets
The following article appeared in The Melbourne Age newspaper on 31 March 2009: Diggers remembered as French town gives back Saying they will “never forget” the valour of Australian diggers, residents of the French town of Villers-Bretonneux have pledged funds … Continue reading