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: Top Posts
11/11 at Fromelles:2
Photo: Her Excellency, the Governor-General of Australia, Ms Quentin Bryce AC, with the Australian Ambassador to France, His Excellency Mr David Ritchie, at Fromelles. The Governor-General of Australia, Ms Quentin Bryce AC, visited Fromelles on 9 November 2008. During … Continue reading
11/11 at Fromelles:3
The Fromelles local community organised a day of commemoration for the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice, as seen in the invitation below: Once again Carole Laignel has been generous in sharing photos of these events. To start … Continue reading
DNA testing approved.
In a press release on the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice – The Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, the Hon. Warren Snowdon MP, today announced that Britain and Australia had jointly agreed to attempt DNA extraction … Continue reading
*Wartime Magazine
The Australian War Memorial’s official magazine Wartime has been in print since November 1997. The most recent issue, number 44, is a First World War Special Issue. It includes a collection of articles on ‘Australia’s Worst 24 hours FROMELLES’ from … Continue reading
Mateship Award.
Lambis Englezos has been named the winner of Mateship Award in the Herald Sun/Sunday Herald Sun’s Pride of Australia awards, in Melbourne on Tuesday evening 21 October, 2008. Photo: Lambis Englezos, Pheasant Wood April 2008. Lambis is reported, in the … Continue reading
FFFAIF Statement
The Families and Friends of the First AIF applauds the announcement by Ministers Warren Snowdon (Australia) and Derek Twigg (United Kingdom) that the Australian Diggers and their British mates, buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood near Fromelles, will be … Continue reading
Satellite View.
The site of the new Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) cemetery at Fromelles in northern France can easily be viewed using Google Earth. Photo: Fromelles Church Spire from the site new CWGC’s cemetery at Fromelles. [Dept. Defence] The co-ordinates for … Continue reading
Site CONFIRMED.
The first Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery to be built in France in 62 years will be located opposite the church in the French Village of Fromelles. Photo: The site of the new CWGC’s cemetery at Fromelles. [Dept. Defence] THE HON. … Continue reading
*Recovery of Soldiers
More information about the new cemetery planned for Fromelles has been made available by Warren Snowdon,The Minister for Minister for Defence Science and Personnel through the Department of Defence’s latest media release: Tuesday, 30 September 2008 137/2008 MINISTERS DISCUSS FROMELLES: RECOVERY OF … Continue reading
*New Cemetery Site
The Federal Government Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Warren Snowdon, visited Fromelles and Pheasant Wood, for the first time on Monday. Pheasant Wood is the burial site of approximately 400 Australian and British World War I soldiers. Mr Snowdon announced that … Continue reading