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
- 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.3 Atherton Qld
This week we feature the Atherton War Memorial, west of Cairns in Queensland. Queensland memorials will be a regular feature of Memorial Way thanks to the generosity of the authors of Salute the Brave – A Pictorial Record of Queensland War Memorials, … Continue reading
Fromelles Contract
The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel announced on 17 February that Oxford Archaeology would carry out the excavation at Pheasant Wood Fromelles. Photo: Pheasant Wood Fromelles, Winter 2009. [Hubert Hutchett] The media release from the Department of Defence Science and … Continue reading
Bathurst Invite
The FFFAIF is opening the doors of its inaugural Regional Meeting in Bathurst, NSW to RSL Members and the public. Bookings are essential. Please contact Regional meeting co-ordinator Peter Benson pbenson@kooee.com.au Date: Sunday 15th March 2009 Where: Bathurst … Continue reading
Memorial Way No.2
In Memorial Way this week we look at The Tumblong Memorial and The Cudal Memorial Gates in country NSW. The information and photos have been provided by FFFAIF Committee member and editor of DIGGER Graeme Hosken. The Tumblong (NSW) Memorial … Continue reading
New Patron for FFFAIF
The President of FFFAIF, Russell Curley announced, on February 15, that Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce, AC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia has honoured FFFAIF by accepting the position as Patron-in-Chief of Families and Friends of the First AIF … Continue reading
*Intro Memorial Way
Memorial Way will be a regular posting on the FFFAIF website featuring Memorials of the Great War from around Australia. Soldier Memorials started to appear on the Australian landscape soon after the Boer War (1899-1902), to commemorate those men who … Continue reading
*Memorial Way No.1
The first of our postings on Memorial Way has been contributed by FFFAIF member Ray Hudson and features The Cooks Hill Memorial at Bar Beach Newcastle (NSW). The Cooks Hill Memorial was erected before the end of 1917 at Bar … Continue reading
*Briefing Room Intro
Briefing Room will be a regular posting by FFFAIF members who wish to share their information and experiences related to the Great War. The postings will contain reports and photos contributed by members. If you are a FFFAIF member and … Continue reading
*Briefing Room No.1
Contributed by FFFAIF member Stuart Curry: Tyne Cot Railway As you drive out of Tyne Cot Cemetery, turn left and 100 yards down the road you’ll notice on a footpath a small column with an Australian rising sun on it. … Continue reading