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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Category Archives: Diggers of First AIF
'Moo Cow' Farm
Throughout August 1916 the 1st, 2nd & 4th Divisions of the AIF attacked the German stronghold of Mouquet Farm, near Pozieres, in the valley of the Ancre River, a tributary of the Somme. At this time the 5th Division was … Continue reading
Buried where he fell…
More news on the Australian Digger found, still carrying his full kit and holding his rifle, 91 years after he was killed on the Western Front in Belgium. The Australian: DNA testing could reveal WW1Digger’s identity. The Age: Buried where he … Continue reading
New Find In Belgium
From Fairfax Digital: the age.com.au Wednesday 20 August 5:11pm Old Aussie soldier uncovered in Belgium Ninety-one years ago, an Australian soldier fell dead on a Belgian battlefield and unnoticed by his mates, was buried, perhaps by a shell blast. Last … Continue reading
3 out 5 @ Zonnebeke
Photo: ‘Zonnebeke 5’ graves, Buttes New British Cemetery, Belgium The following news bulletin has been received from the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Zonnebeke: On 3 July we announced that the remains of an unknown Australian soldier, killed in September 1917, had … Continue reading
Football & The AIF
With the ‘footie’ season throughout Australia approaching its final rounds, a timely addition to the website is Laura Grumley’s winning essay for the 2007 John Laffin Memorial Travel Prize (JLTP) which traces the war experience of four footballers in … Continue reading
First to see action.
The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (A.N & M.E.F.) sailed from Australia on 19th August 1914 to occupy the German colonies in the South Pacific and prevent wireless transmissions to the German Pacific naval squadron. Photo: The Australian Naval … Continue reading
Call for Assistance
The Fromelles Descendant Database, in co-operation with British Historian Peter Barton, are seeking assistance in gathering evidence for the Fromelles study. Are you able to assist in the following request from Tim Lycett, Fromelles Descendant Database, in regard to Australian Soldiers … Continue reading
Seeking Private Craine
Following the success in locating the descendants of Private Henry (Harry) Cressy we are now seeking help in locating descendants of another Australian digger from the Great War, Private William Henry Craine, No 7093. Private Craine’s portrait, like that of … Continue reading
19th Bn AIF History
Colour patch of 19th Battalion FFFAIF member Wayne Matthews has been gathering material to publish a history of 19th Bn AIF, 1915 – 1919. The FFFAIF is providing some support to this effort by spreading the word that the project is … Continue reading
Pte Cressy Is Home
The John Laffin Memorial Lecture (JLML) held on 13th July 2008 led to a happy reunion between the family of one of the 30 members of the 54th Battalion listed as amongst the ‘missing at Fromelles’ and a portrait of … Continue reading