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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- 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
- Fromelles Day 2025 – Commemorating the 109th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
Category Archives: Diggers of First AIF
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Articles L/Sgt 1997 Abel Skinner DCM, 25 th Bn, Geoffrey Benn … Continue reading
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Articles Memoir: Gnr 752 Augustus (Ted) Sampson, 31st Bn & 3rd FAB, Peter Nelson 3-11 Sgt 642 Boyd Alexander Ellem, 41st Bn (and serving Ellem relatives), Geoffrey Benn 12-17 The 1916 diary … Continue reading
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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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CONTENTS Articles Lieut Clarence Roy Thorsen MM, 32nd Bn & 8th LTMB, John Aitken 3-5 A Digger’s initiative in 1918, as told by Gnr … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles Pte 2007 George Thomas Littleboy, 42nd Bn, identified, Andrew Pittaway 3-6 Winning machine-gun team, 12th Bde Sports Meeting, Anzac Day 1917, Greg O’Reilly 6 Lieut … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles ‘A maiden’s voyage’ – the story of Maud Butler, John Aitken 3-6 1918 letter: POW Pte 1949 … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles ‘Yells, bells and smells,’ the Anzacs in Malta 1915, Diana Sillato 3-11 Postscript: 1915 letter from Malta, Pte 2203 … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles RSM 1 Thomas Selwyn, 40th Bn, Jim Rouse … Continue reading
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CONTENTS Articles Colonel Arthur Graham Butler DSO, AAMC, Peter Burgess 3-9 Lieut Herbert Washington Tinning Allan … Continue reading