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
- Fromelles Day 2026 – Commemorating the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
- DIGGER 94
- VALE Dame Marie Bashir: Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir, AD CVO
- Patron-in-Chief Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
- DIGGER 93
- 2025 FFFAIF Annual General Meeting and John Laffin Memorial Lecture series
- DIGGER 92
- Fromelles Day 2025 – Commemorating the 109th anniversary in Sydney of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
Category Archives: Diggers of First AIF
MP on Duty
Gain an insight into the work of the Australian Provost Corps during the Great War by visiting our newest web page, Military Police Post. Within these pages you will find Reports from Assistant Provost Marshall (APM) 1st ANZAC CORPS which have … Continue reading
AN & MEF Casualties
The first Australian casualties of the Great War were members of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (A.N & M.E.F.). They were Able Seaman W G V Williams, a member of the 1st Battalion A.N & M.E.F and Captain … Continue reading
2nd Division Memorial
Photo: 2nd Divisional Memorial at Mont St.Quentin [Ray Hudson] The 2nd Division Memorial stands beside the road known as the Avenue des Australiens just two kilometres from the Somme River. It is the only Australian Divisional Memorial which has changed … Continue reading
'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