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-
Recent News
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Category Archives: Diggers of First AIF
*48th Battalion History
FFFAIF member Neville Browning’s book LEANE’S BATTALION: 48th Battalion A.I.F. 1916-1919 is now available. LEANE’S BATTALION is the History of the 48th Battalion A.I.F. in World War 1, from its formation in Egypt in 1916 to its war service on … Continue reading
AWM Honour Roll Photos
The Australian War Memorial is home to The Australian Roll of Honour which records and commemorates the names of Australia’s war dead. It takes the form of bronze panels in the Memorial’s Commemorative Area and the Roll of Honour database, which is … Continue reading
*DNA & Identification
The joint announcement by the Australian and British governments that the remains of the soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood Fromelles by the German Army after the 19 July 1916 Battle of Fromelles will undergo DNA analysis, has increased the chances … Continue reading
Pte George Storey
In Honour of Private George R. Storey Photo: Private George Storey [David Storey http://www.polygonwood.com/] Western Australian FFFAIF member, Sandra Playle, has provided the website with an interesting newspaper article which completes the final chapter of the story of Private George … Continue reading
*End of an Era
THE LAST OF A GENERATION Private John Ross – We will remember him The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Alan Griffin, today expressed his sorrow at the passing of John ‘Jack’ Ross, the last remaining Australian to have served during the … Continue reading
Memorial Way No.2
In Memorial Way this week we look at The Tumblong Memorial and The Cudal Memorial Gates in country NSW. The information and photos have been provided by FFFAIF Committee member and editor of DIGGER Graeme Hosken. The Tumblong (NSW) Memorial … Continue reading
*Memorial Way No.1
The first of our postings on Memorial Way has been contributed by FFFAIF member Ray Hudson and features The Cooks Hill Memorial at Bar Beach Newcastle (NSW). The Cooks Hill Memorial was erected before the end of 1917 at Bar … Continue reading
*Gallipoli Evacuation
Gallipoli Evacuation Begins From the 8th to the 20th of December 1915, a total of 90,000 allied troops were evacuated from the Gallipoli Peninsula. Brigadier General Monash wrote about the upcoming evacuation, in a letter he planned to post after … Continue reading
AIF arrive in Egypt.
Ninety four years ago, on 3rd December 1914, the First AIF disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt, after sailing from Albany Western Australia four weeks earlier. The postcard below shows the Australian troopships travelling through the Suez Canal on their way to … Continue reading
New Zealand News.
Today, 22 October 2008, sees the opening of the Shout V.C. Barracks at Linton, New Zealand. The barracks have been named after Captain Alfred John Shout VC, MC who served with F Company, 1st Infantry Battalion AIF on Gallipoli. The … Continue reading