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
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- Patron-in-Chief Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
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- 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
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*Arthur 'Harry' Cobby
Bravery and Service – ‘Harry’ Cobby remembered An invitation from the Military History Society of Australia, Victorian Branch Inc for their upcoming meeting: An Australian war hero from Victoria, – Air Commodore Arthur ‘Harry’ Cobby – will be remembered … Continue reading
Seeking Sapper Scott
Families and Friends of the First AIF member, Sandra Greenshields, is researching the military career of her maternal grandfather Sapper Charles John Scott (No.4319) who served with the 15th Field Company Engineers. Photo: Sapper Charles John Scott MM [Family collection] … Continue reading
Passing of Harry's niece
Messages of condolence from overseas and across Australia have been received by the family of 93 year-old Marjorie Whitford of Gippsland, Victoria, who passed away peacefully, surrounded by four generations of loving family, including her 5 great-grandchildren, late Monday afternoon, … Continue reading
New WW I Archive
A recently discovered set of Parliamentary Papers dating back to World War I have been deposited with the National Archives of Australia. The papers were found amongst documents relating to World War II. The ABC News reported on the discovery: Historians will … Continue reading
Fromelles list of names
The Hon.Greg Combett AM MP Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science and The Hon. Alan Griffin MP Minister for Veterans’ Affairs announced the results of the first Joint Identification Board, held to identify the soldiers recently reburied in Fromelles. … Continue reading
Fromelles on YouTube
A number of videos have appeared on YouTube featuring the military funeral for the reinterment of the first of the 250 Australian and British soldiers in the Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery on Saturday 30 January, 2010 . Click on the triangle … Continue reading
ANZAC DAY 2009
Across Australia in small country towns to capital cities and throughout the world people have gathered to commemorate ANZAC Day on 25 April. FFFAIF members were present at services around the country and across the world – from northern Queensland … Continue reading
*ANZAC Day: Croydon, Vic. '09.
Continuing our coverage across Australia in small country towns and capital cities and throughout the world where people have gathered to commemorate ANZAC Day on 25 April. FFFAIF members have been reporting from northern Queensland to Victoria and across the … Continue reading
Fromelles Site Works
Major General Mike O’Brien, the senior Australian Army Officer with responsibility for the investigation and recovery of any Australian War Dead at Fromelles, recently outlined at the FFFAIF Regional Meeting at Bathurst, the broad timetable for the development of the … Continue reading
Memorial Way No. 9
Montrose War Memorial – Victoria. FFFAIF member Heather Ford has compiled this report on her local war memorial at Montrose, Victoria: The Montrose War Memorial was commissioned in 1921, and was originally located in the middle of the town’s main intersection … Continue reading