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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- Patron-in-Chief Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn AC Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
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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
Category Archives: Top Posts
New Panels at Fromelles.
Three new information panels have recently been installed at the Australian Memorial Park at Fromelles. These will provide extra information to visitors and supplement the Ross Bastiaan bronze relief which shows the battlefield during the Battle of Fromelles in July … Continue reading
German Records
FFFAIF member Ross McMullin’s article in Saturday, 30th August, Sydney Morning Herald reports on the discovery of “remarkably rich German records about he disastrous attack at Fromelles’. Click here to read Ross’ article, New light on battle mystery. Ross is … Continue reading
Britain At War
The following article appeared in the August 2008 edition of the magazine Britain at War : Mass Grave uncovered at Fromelles. To read the article just RIGHT click on the following: mass-grave-uncovered-at-fromelles Britain at War Magazine is issued monthly and covers the history of conflicts that … 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
Media Watch
With the media’s attention focused on the Olympic Games, in China there has been little coverage on Fromelles or any other World War 1 stories. The Border Watch: Soldier will be laid to rest. Click here. The Oxford Mail: Uncle … Continue reading
What's in the media?
The Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, The Hon. Warren Snowdon announced on Thursday 31st July that a new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery would be created at or near the Pheasant Wood site and the soldiers’ remains [found during … Continue reading
Fromelles on the News
Since the recent announcement by Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, The Hon. Warren Snowdon that a new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery would be created at or near the Pheasant Wood site and the soldiers’ remains would be exhumed … Continue reading
Fromelles In the Press
The recent announcement by Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, The Hon. Warren Snowdon that a new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery would be created at or near the Pheasant Wood site and the soldiers’ remains would be exhumed and … Continue reading
Reaction To Decision
The Hon. Warren Snowdon MP, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, in the presence of Garrie Hutchinson from the Friends of the Fifteenth Brigade, announced at the ‘Cobbers’ statue in the grounds of Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance on Thursday afternoon … Continue reading
Government Decision
At 4:00 this afternoon the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel The Hon. Warren Snowdon MP announced the future of the soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood Fromelles: The Australian and British governments have agreed that individual military burial is the … Continue reading