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
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- 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: Events
*2009 AGM
Families and Friends of First AIF Inc Annual General Meeting Saturday 10th October 2009 at Army Museum Bandiana Wondonga, Victoria. Full details of the AGM are available to FFFAIF members in the Member’s Area in Trench News under Member Updates. ***** … Continue reading
*The last day of WW1
SBS TV Friday 28th August 2009 at 8.30pm “As It Happened: The last day of World War 1″ The BBC program description is: Broadcaster Michael Palin tells the story of how the First World War ended on 11th November 1918 … Continue reading
*DNA Go Ahead
A joint statement was made today by the Australian and British governments that DNA testing will commence this week on the remains of World War 1 soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood. Scientists will undertake mass DNA-testing in the hope of … Continue reading
55,555 hits
55,555 hits The Families and Friends of the First AIF (FFFAIF) website reached a new milestone this week as it registered its 55,555th ‘hit’. The website was launched on the 26 January 2008 and is regularly updated. During this time … Continue reading
War declared:shots fired
At 11pm Greenwich Mean Time (midnight in Berlin) on the 4 August 1914, the British ultimatum to the Germans to withdraw from Belgium expired and Britain declared war on Germany. Photo: SS Pflaz which was renamed HMAT Boorara (A42) [AWM] … Continue reading
Last WW1 soldier
Henry (Harry) John Patch the last British surviving veteran of the Great War died on 25 July 2009 aged 111. Photo: Harry Patch arriving at Langemark Cemetery, October 2008 [Mike Goodwin] Harry Patch has been described by the BBC as … Continue reading
The Shrine presents….
The following recordings from public programs held at the Shrine of Remembrance Melbourne are available for download. Photo: Lambis Englezos (left) and Tim Whitford [Tim Whitford] Don’t Forget Me Cobber: Discovering the Men of Fromelles presented by Mr. Lambis Englezos and … Continue reading
Pozieres Service
An INVITATION to attend THE FIRST BATTALION ASSOCIATION’s POZIERES MEMORIAL SERVICE at Saint Columba Uniting Church Ocean & Fourth Street Woollahra (Sydney) on Sunday 26th July 2009 During the service the Colours of the 1st Battalion RNSWR will be … Continue reading
*2009 Memorial Lecture
John Laffin Memorial Lecture The 2009 John Laffin Memorial Lecture provided an opportunity for more than 50 members of the FFFAIF to gather at the Ashfield RSL to hear this year’s guest speakers’ insights into the actions at Gallipoli during … Continue reading
Fromelles in Australia
BATTLE OF FROMELLES COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES The 93rd anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles which was fought on the 19 July 1916 will be commemorated at memorial services in Sydney and Melbourne. IN SYDNEY on: Sunday 19 July 2009 ANZAC MEMORIAL HYDE … Continue reading