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
First to see action.
The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (A.N & M.E.F.) sailed from Australia on 19th August 1914 to occupy the German colonies in the South Pacific and prevent wireless transmissions to the German Pacific naval squadron. Photo: The Australian Naval … Continue reading
Call for Assistance
The Fromelles Descendant Database, in co-operation with British Historian Peter Barton, are seeking assistance in gathering evidence for the Fromelles study. Are you able to assist in the following request from Tim Lycett, Fromelles Descendant Database, in regard to Australian Soldiers … Continue reading
Anzac Day 2008
The New South Wales Government has posted on it’s website, footage from the 2008 Anzac Day Dawn Service at the Sydney Centotaph and March through the streets of Sydney. To view click here. Have other state governments posted similar items … Continue reading
Seeking Private Craine
Following the success in locating the descendants of Private Henry (Harry) Cressy we are now seeking help in locating descendants of another Australian digger from the Great War, Private William Henry Craine, No 7093. Private Craine’s portrait, like that of … Continue reading
Media Watch
With the media’s attention focused on the Olympic Games, in China there has been little coverage on Fromelles or any other World War 1 stories. The Border Watch: Soldier will be laid to rest. Click here. The Oxford Mail: Uncle … Continue reading
Power of Humanity
Ninety four years ago today the Australian Red Cross was formed in Melbourne. The Australian Red Cross website describes its establishment : Australian Red Cross was formed as a branch of the British Red Cross at Government House, Melbourne on … Continue reading
94 years ago …
This week 94 years ago the melting pot of tensions throughout Europe at the time came to a head, culminating in: The Outbreak of War in Europe On 28th June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Hapsburg’s Austro-Hungarian … Continue reading
Gallipoli
Gallipoli Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre at Hickson Road, Walsh Bay. July 30 until August 23. Tickets: $77. Bookings: (02) 9250 1777 The Sydney Morning Herald – Friday 1st August – Brycett Hallett had this to say about the production: … Continue reading
What's in the media?
The Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, The Hon. Warren Snowdon announced on Thursday 31st July that a new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery would be created at or near the Pheasant Wood site and the soldiers’ remains [found during … Continue reading
On the Anzac Track!
The Australian: Plans for an Anzac track through France. Click here to read the article which reveals that the Federal Government may be re-thinking the way in which fallen Australians are honoured in France. Fromelles Museum is located in the … Continue reading