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
Unique experience!
Belgium member Johan Durnez tells about Families and Friends of the First AIF member Ray Hudson and his wife Margaret’s recent visit: The highlight of their visit came as a real surprise ….. when we were at De Dreve, Johan Vandewalles inn on … Continue reading
Ieper wreathing laying
Australian and Belgium members of the Families and Friend of the First AIF gathered at Menin Gates, Ieper, to participate in the Last Post Ceremony on Monday 28th April, 2008. The Last Post Ceremony has been performed under the Menin Gate … Continue reading
Cemetery re-dedication
The small English village of Compton Chamberlayne can be found just a short distance from Salisbury in Wiltshire. During the First World War twenty eight members of the AIF, who died while stationed at nearby camps, were buried in the village burial ground. … Continue reading
ANZAC Commemorations
ANZAC Services at Baverstock and Sutton Veny, Wiltshire ANZAC Day at St Edith’s Baverstock, Wiltshire, UK Anzac Day 2008 saw the third Anzac Day Service commemorated at St Edith’s Church Baverstock. The churchyard contains the graves of 32 World War 1 soldiers. … Continue reading
Dawn Service in UK
Codford St Mary, in the UK, is the final resting place of 97 Anzacs – 66 New Zealanders and 31 Australians – from the Great War. Each year locals and visitors gather in the cemetery at Dawn to commemorate Anzac … Continue reading
Anzac Day at Ieper
Dear Friends This morning at 11.15 took place the special Last Post at Menin Gate. Apart from the NZ and Australian embassadors and other dignitaries, the special guest today was Mr Peter Ross, city councillor of Hamilton NZ. The choir … Continue reading
Anzac Day at V-B.
A crowd of more than 5000 people attended the special Australian Dawn Service at the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France. Carole Laignel, Secretary of the Fromelles Museum shares her thoughts on attending this service: How happy I was to be at … Continue reading
Menin Gate
On Monday 28th April the Families and Friends of the First AIF will be laying a wreath during the Last Post Ceremony at Menin Gate Ieper http://www.lastpost.be/ .
56th Btn History
Two employees of the Australian War Memorial (Craig Tibbitts and Nick Fletcher), have recently embarked upon a new research project – the writing of a unit history for the 56th Battalion, AIF during the First World War. This is one of … Continue reading
Kenmore Hospital
“Kenmore and War Exhibition” (WWI & WWII) “Within the grounds of Kenmore Hospital opposite the Administration building is the Hospital’s War Memorial. This memorial lists the names of 68 members of staff who served in WWI & WWII. Who … Continue reading