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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:in Melbourne
Remembering Fromelles in Melbourne The Shrine of Remembrance was the site of Melbourne’s Commemorative Service for the 93rd anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles. Photo: Fromelles Commemorative Service (l to r) Tim Whitford, Lambis Englezos, Guillaume Moreel, Major General Mike … Continue reading
:in France
Remembering Fromelles in France Commemorations at Fromelles 93rd Anniversary The Battle of Fromelles Sunday 19th July 2008 The village of Fromelles in northern France once again commemorated the anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles. Separate commemorations were held at VC … Continue reading
*Fromelles' Update
UPDATE ON PROGRESS AT FROMELLES Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, today announced that the project to recover and re-inter Australian and British World War One soldiers discovered in France remains on track. Over 100 sets of … Continue reading
Fromelles Claims Response
Photo: Oxford Archaeology Team at work. [CWGC] Chris Bryett, President of Recovering Overseas Australia’s Missing Inc (ROAM) and FFFAIF Member, who was one of the key people supporting Lambis Englezos in his efforts to convince the Australian Army to investigate the claim that … Continue reading
Don't forget me, cobber
Don’t forget me, cobber – Book launch The much anticipated updated edition of Robin Corfield’s book, Don’t forget me, cobber, is the extraordinary story of the lead-up to the battle, the battle itself, as well as the successful search for the ‘missing … Continue reading
Fromelles in France
BATTLE OF FROMELLES COMMEMORATIVE SERVICES FROMELLES Sunday 19 July 2009 at 10:30am The famous Cobbers Statue at the Australian Memorial Park at Fromelles has recently undergone a refurbishment in preparation for the 93rd Anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles. A … 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
PM Reaffirms Fromelles
PM REAFFIRMS AUST GOVT FROMELLES COMMITMENT and 7 July Project Update The archaeological dig at Pheasant Wood Fromelles continues to work towards the exhumation and identification of the missing from the Battle of Fromelles as the 93rd anniversary of the battle … Continue reading
Aussie Archaeologists
Australian Archaeologists at Pheasant Wood The British group Oxford Archaeology (OA) is responsible for the exhumation of the bodies of British and Australian soldiers who died during the Battle of Fromelles on 19 July 1916 and were buried by the German army … Continue reading
*DNA Contractor appointed
It was announced on Tuesday 16 June 2009 on the Australian Army Fromelles Project website that the DNA Contractor for the Fromelles Project has been awarded to LGC Forensics to collect and analyse DNA samples from the remains of the the British and Australian … Continue reading