2025 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 3 May Australian Western Front Association, Gallipoli Association, FFFAIF Lecture Day
Saturday 19 July Fromelles Day Commemoration in Sydney at the Anzac Memorial and
Melbourne Wreath-laying at the Shrine of Remembrance and Ipswich in QueenslandSunday 27 July Pozieres Service St Columba Woollahra TBC
Friday 26 September Commemoration of the Battles of 3rd Ypres
Sunday 19 October War Widows Day
Tuesday 11 November Remembrance Day
Saturday 15th November FFFAIF AGM and John Laffin Memorial Lecture Day
Venue: Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney and AGM On-line Zoom Meeting-
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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
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CONTENTS Articles Australian Reponses to the Outbreak of War, 1914, Sophie Briggs, 2021 JLMHP recipient 3-6 1917 letter: Lieut Col Richard Fitz-Gerald DSO, 24th Bn, found on Trove 6 Memoirs of Pte 1172 Clifford Sharman, 26th Bn, Part 2 (final), … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles Memoirs of Pte 1172 Clifford Sharman, 26th Bn, Part 1, Owen Cook 3-14 Analysis of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion at Hamel, 4 July 1918, Greg O’Reilly 15-19 ‘Sorry, you two Australian Mums’: the death of Gnr 3513 … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles Tour of a 35th Bn Company in the front line at Ypres, 1917, ‘Detonator’, AWM collection 3-6 Postscript: 35th Bn men killed 29 Sept to 4 Oct, 1917, Stephen Brooks 6-7 3rd Division AIF rest schedule, Mjr Gen … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles 2nd Lieut William Harold Treloar, AFC, Heather Ford 3-9 Sister Ella Lord, AANS, contrib. by Faye Threlfall 10-12 1916 letter: L/Cpl 1524 Frederick McCann, 15th Bn, found on Trove 12 Pte 1515 Eugene Sullivan, 9th Fld Amb, Harold … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles The PNG grave of Lieut Col Maurice Wilder-Neligan, 9th & 10th Bns, Greg Knight 3-7 Dvr 2098 Cecil Barram, 5th FAB, Lynora Conley 8-12 Nurses at the wartime wedding of Sr Nell Pike and Cpl 4414 Charles Laffin, … Continue reading
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Contents Articles L/Cpl 9641 Edward McCoy, AASC/43rd Bn, Peter Bartley 3-5 1918 letter: Pte 7444 George Parry, 42nd Bn, found on Trove 6-7 WWI poems of Spr NX6925 Herbert Beros, 2/6 FC RAE, Greg Knight 8-10 The Manly War Memorial, … Continue reading