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
Fromelles on the News
Since the recent announcement by Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, The Hon. Warren Snowdon that a new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery would be created at or near the Pheasant Wood site and the soldiers’ remains would be exhumed … Continue reading
Fromelles In the Press
The recent announcement by Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, The Hon. Warren Snowdon that a new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery would be created at or near the Pheasant Wood site and the soldiers’ remains would be exhumed and … Continue reading
Reaction To Decision
The Hon. Warren Snowdon MP, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, in the presence of Garrie Hutchinson from the Friends of the Fifteenth Brigade, announced at the ‘Cobbers’ statue in the grounds of Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance on Thursday afternoon … Continue reading
Government Decision
At 4:00 this afternoon the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel The Hon. Warren Snowdon MP announced the future of the soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood Fromelles: The Australian and British governments have agreed that individual military burial is the … Continue reading
Restless Diggers
The Battle of Fromelles was fought by the British and Empire forces 92 years ago. The AIF suffered 5,533 casualties in the battle and through the research of Lambis Englezos, the burial place of over 400 of the fallen soldiers, … Continue reading
Pozieres Remembered
Pozieres Commemoration Service Saint Columba Uniting Church, Woollahra Sunday 27 July 2008 The annual Pozieres Commemoration Service was held at Saint Columba Uniting Church, Woollahra on Sunday 27 July. Approximately 150 people attended this service in what had been the Presbyterian … Continue reading
Cobbers Perspective
The younger generations of Australia were represented recently at the unveiling of the Cobbers Statute in Melbourne on the 19th July. FFFAIF member Hector McDonald and his daughter Paige attended the unveiling of the statue and the commemorative service for … Continue reading
Mayor visits Sydney
Mayoral visit to historic Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney Monsieur Hubert Huchette, Mayor of Fromelles, accompanied by his wife Mme Therese Huchette visited Sydney with Monsieur Martial Delebarre OAM, President of the Fromelles Weppes Territoriale Memoriale following the unveiling of the … Continue reading
19th Bn AIF History
Colour patch of 19th Battalion FFFAIF member Wayne Matthews has been gathering material to publish a history of 19th Bn AIF, 1915 – 1919. The FFFAIF is providing some support to this effort by spreading the word that the project is … Continue reading
Pte Cressy Is Home
The John Laffin Memorial Lecture (JLML) held on 13th July 2008 led to a happy reunion between the family of one of the 30 members of the 54th Battalion listed as amongst the ‘missing at Fromelles’ and a portrait of … Continue reading