2023 Calendar of events
Saturday 22 April WFA Seminar, with FFFAIF John Laffin Memorial Lecture
Tuesday 25 April Anzac Day
FFFAIF has traditionally supported AWWOD organising descendants’ participation in the Sydney Anzac Day March.In 2023 FFFAIF will encourage “Dawn drive-way vigils”.
The RSL is promoting ‘Light up the Dawn’ gatherings on driveways and balconies and 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 FranceWednesday 19 July Fromelles Day Commemoration in Sydney at the Anzac Memorial and
Melbourne Wreath-laying at the Shrine of Remembrance and Ipswich in QueenslandSunday 23 July Pozieres Service St Columba Woollahra TBC
Tuesday 26 September Commemoration of the Battles of 3rd Ypres
Thursday 19 October War Widows Day
Saturday 21st October FFFAIF AGM and WFA Lecture Day
Venue: Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney and AGM On-line Zoom MeetingSaturday 11 November Remembrance Day
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Recent News
- Fromelles Day Sydney 19 July 2023: Commemorative Procession from the Archibald Fountain to the Anzac Memorial
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- Commemorating the 105th anniversary of the Battles of 3rd Ypres in 2022
- Fromelles Day Sydney 19 July 2022: Commemorative Procession from the Archibald Fountain to the Anzac Memorial and Commemorative Service
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CONTENTS Articles From the AIF to the RFC, Stephen Brooks … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles The ANZAC Buffet, Sydney, Greg Knight 3-5 The famous photograph of men of the 9th Field Ambulance, Greg Ogle 6-8 1916 letter: Pte 576 George Howard MM, 20th Bn, found on Trove 9 Photograph of John Lyons Gray, … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles Geoffrey Serle’s mistaken portrayal of Charles Bean in his biography of John Monash, Anne Carroll 3-11 A fallen Digger: Sgt 719 Walton Grayson DCM, 4th LHR, Andrew Pittaway 12-21 Christmas billies 1916: thank-you letters from Pte 2315 Joseph … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles Red Dust (memoirs of a light horseman), Chapter 11 (final), Tpr 3073 John Gray, 6th LHR 3-20 Postscript to ‘Red Dust’: Who was ‘Donald Black’ (John Gray)? Graeme Hosken 20-21 Sgt 845 Edward Noah, 9th Bn, Graeme Hosken … Continue reading
Sydney Commemorative Service for the Battle of Pozieres
During The Battle of Pozieres, from 23 July 1916 until 7 August 1916, the AIF suffered enormous losses. Charles Bean, Australia’s official war historian described the Pozieres ridge as being more densely sown with Australian sacrifice than any other place … Continue reading
Commemoration of the Battle of Fromelles, Thursday 19 July 2018
Thursday 19 July is the 102nd anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles in northern France, the first battle involving Australian troops on the Western Front following the withdrawal from Gallipoli. It was and remains the largest loss of Australian life … Continue reading
Bastille Day Community Celebration Saturday 14 July 2018 La Perouse Museum & Grounds
Saturday 14 July 2018 9:30am – 2pm Location La Perouse Museum & Grounds Address 1542 Anzac Parade, La Perouse Come and celebrate Bastille Day, the French National Day with historical re-enactments, food and drink stalls, live entertainment and fun activities … Continue reading
Sydney Centenary Commemoration of the Third Battle of Ypres
The Families and Friends of the First AIF invite you to attend or view the Commemoration of the Centenary of The Third Battle of Ypres including Menin Road, 2025 September Polygon Wood, 26 September to 3 October Broodseinde, 4 October … Continue reading
Flanders Memorial Garden dedicated at the Australian War Memorial 4 April 2017
More than 6 000 Australian soldiers are buried in unknown graves in Flanders fields. Now there is a Flanders Memorial Garden at the Australian War Memorial containing soil from those battlefields, Flanders cemeteries and Australian places that the soldiers knew … Continue reading
Special Event to Welcome Martial and Catherine Delebarre to Sydney
2008 Photo: Martial Delebarre (President Association Fromelles-Weppes-Terre de Memoire 14-18 (F.W.T.M. 14-18 ), Hubert Huchette (Mayor of Fromelles) and Francis Delattre (President de Union des Anciens Combattants – de l’UNC) The Fromelles Association and the Australian Branch of the Western Front … Continue reading