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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Category Archives: Commemorations
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/ .
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
Remembrance Day – ACT
Remembrance Day Canberra 2007 89th Anniversary of the silencing of the guns on the Western Front 11am, 11/11/1918 FFFAIF members Russell Curley, Brad Jones and Alan Kitchen were amongst the 2,700 people who attended the Remembrance Day service in the national … Continue reading
Remembrance Day – France
This message was sent by Martial Delebarre president of Association pour le Souvenir de la Bataille de Fromelles and founding member of the Fromelles Museum. Bonjour chers amis, Hello dear friends , We’re going to celebrate the 89th anniversary of … Continue reading
Remembrance Day – Sydney
A diverse crowd gathered at the Sydney Cenothaph to commemorate Remembrance Day 2007.