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
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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
Fromelles status
Following the Fromelles Project being the subject of a number of press articles as reported in RECENT NEWS items Fromelles in news and Archaeological Debate, the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, The Hon. Greg Combet AM MP made a detailed … Continue reading
*Archaeological Debate
The archaeological techniques being employed by Oxford Archaeology at the Pheasant Wood, Fromelles site for the exhumation of the remains of World War 1 soldiers buried by the German Army has recently been criticised in the Australian Press. This has … Continue reading
Fromelles in news
Media reports claim that the ability to identify the remains of the British and Australian soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood near Fromelles is being compromised by the timetable to lift all of the remains by the end of next month … Continue reading
*DNA & Identification
The joint announcement by the Australian and British governments that the remains of the soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood Fromelles by the German Army after the 19 July 1916 Battle of Fromelles will undergo DNA analysis, has increased the chances … 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
*Fromelles Video News
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website remembering Fromelles now includes an informative video on the progress of the excavation of the mass graves at Pheasant Wood. Photo: Australian archaeologist Ambika Flavel [Tim Loveless OA] Included in the video is … Continue reading
*Pics Fromelles Service
The 93rd Anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles was commemorated in France at three services held at significant locations at Fromelles on Sunday 19 July 2009. Thanks to the generosity of members and supporters of the FFFAIF in France who … Continue reading
*DNA and Family Trees.
The posting of 17 June DNA Contractor appointed advised of the appointment of LGC Forensics to collect and analyse DNA samples from the remains of the British and Australian soldiers buried by the Germans at Pheasant Wood following the Battle … Continue reading
Fromelles News Stories
As outlined in the 10 July posting Fromelles Claims Response, there have been a number of recent media articles reflecting on aspects of the exhumation, identification and reinterment of the Australian soldiers at Fromelles. This posting provides an update on this … Continue reading
Fromelles' Services: :in Sydney
Remembering Fromelles in Sydney A Commemoration Service on the 93rd anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles was held at the ANZAC Memorial at Hyde Park in Sydney on Sunday 19 July 2009. Photo: Gathering prior to Commemorative Service On a … Continue reading