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
- 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
- Fromelles Day 2025 – Commemorating the 109th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
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Category Archives: Top Posts
Men of Fromelles
In the lead up to Remembrance Day newspapers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have released a series of articles based on the work of Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle, the founders of www.fromelles.net . Tim & Sandra, both FFFAIF members, have … Continue reading
*Fromelles on SBS
Sunday 8 November 2009 on SBS at 8:30 pm AEST Lost and Found Over 3,000 British and Australian troops were killed at the Battle of Fromelles on the Western Front, in what is still considered the worst 24 hour period … Continue reading
Cemetery Update
The new Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery being built at Fromelles, in northern France, is well underway and on schedule for the reinterment of the soldiers whose remains were exhumed from the World War 1 burial pits at Pheasant Wood. The … Continue reading
*DNA kits in the Post
The Australian Army Fromelles Project Team announced on Tuesday 27 October that: Work on site at Pheasant Wood is complete with over 6000 artefacts recovered and analysed. The work to try and identify some of the 250 soldiers recovered from … Continue reading
*Cobbers School
On Saturday 10 October, the Australian Ambassador to France, His Excellency, Mr David A. Ritchie, officially opened the renovations and extensions to the Fromelles village school. The school is now officially known as the Cobbers. The renaming of the school … Continue reading
*Latest from Fromelles
The Australian Army Fromelles Project continues to post updates on the archaeological dig at Pheasant Wood Fromelles. The latest update on the project was issued on 25 September and stated: Another milestone was achieved this week with the completion of … Continue reading
Fromelles Board's Report
The joint announcement by the Australian and British Government on 3 September 2009 that Oxford Archaeology had completed the archaeological excavation of Pheasant Wood with the recovery of a total of 250 soldiers brings to a close the second stage … Continue reading
Excavation Complete
FROMELLES EXCAVATION SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED Photo: Members of Oxford Archaeology Team including Australian Archaelogists Richard Wright (4th from left) and Ambika Flavel(rhs). [OA] Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science announced, on 10 September 2009, that the archaeological excavation at … Continue reading
*DNA arrives in UK
The Australian Army Fromelles Project update released on 24 August 2009 reports on progress to date and the Media Day held at Pheasant Wood recently. Photo: Media observing archaeologists at work. [Australian Army] The update also reports that: a significant … Continue reading
Fromelles reporting…
Media reports on Fromelles continue: Fromelles report unearth’s conflicting views: Richard Wright Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 August 2009. Fromelles dig ignores hurtful attack: The Australian, 21 August 2009. Fromelles – Recovering Overseas Australia’s … Continue reading