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
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- Fromelles Day 2025 – Commemorating the 109th anniversary in Sydney of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
Author Archives: FFFAIF
Fromelles Database
Hi All, Just a short announcement to let everyone know that a web page (very simple and basic) has been set up in an effort to locate current living descendants of the missing Australian soldiers most probably buried at Pheasant … Continue reading
Try Google Earth
Have you tried visiting the Battle Fields of World War 1 using Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/)? Visit these locations: The Sphinx – Gallipoli The satellite view of this photo has the Google Earth GPS location: 40°14’25.39″N 26°17’00.49″E Just copy and paste these … Continue reading
Fromelles Descendants
Any relatives of the Australian soldiers missing at the Battle of Fromelles are invited to contact Families and Friends of the First AIF at projectfffaif@yahoo.com.au if they wish to be added to a data base being compiled for use in ongoing … Continue reading
Le Hamel Memorial
Temporary closure of the Australian Corps Memorial, Le Hamel. The Australian Department of Veterans Affairs has announced: The Australian Corps Memorial Park at Le Hamel, France, will be closed to visitors from February 2008 for a period of approximately … Continue reading
Bullecourt Remembers
‘We will remember them’ FFFAIF Western Front Representative, Yves Fohlen, has recently announced a new project at Bullecourt in co-operation with the Jean & Denise Letaille Museum Association. Yves says about the new project called “THEIR FACES”: The goal … Continue reading
Commemorative Tour
“Lest We Forget” Project FFFAIF member, Mike Goodwin, a History teacher at Mackay North State High School, is currently organising his school’s 5th overseas commemorative tour to Thailand, Gallipoli, France / Belgium and Singapore. This tour, the Remembrance 2008 … Continue reading
All-Australia Memorial
The first editions of the All-Australia Memorial were published in 1917. These books have been dificult to access in the past as there are very few copies in the public domain, e.g. The Mitchell Library in Sydney has one copy and The … Continue reading
New Website
The Committee is proud to announce the listing today, Australia Day, of the new website for The Families and Friends of The First AIF Inc. on the internet.
Twilight at AWM
During January 2008 the Australian War Memorial Canberra provided the opportunity on three occasions to visit the Memorial at twilight. On each of these evenings the Memorial closed with a special Choir performance by Sing Australia, followed by the playing of either … Continue reading