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
Category Archives: Memorials
Preview new Memorial.
Australian Corps Memorial Park at Le Hamel is once again open to the public. The new Memorial will be officially re-dedicated at 3pm Saturday 8 November, 2008. This photo of the new memorial has just arrived from FFFAIF Member Yves … Continue reading
*1st Aussie Casualty on Western Front.
Yesterday, 14th October 2008, was the 94th anniversary of the death of the first Australian to be killed in action, on the Western Front, in the Great War. William Thomas Leggett, an Australian serving with the 1st British Life Guards … Continue reading
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
2nd Division Memorial
Photo: 2nd Divisional Memorial at Mont St.Quentin [Ray Hudson] The 2nd Division Memorial stands beside the road known as the Avenue des Australiens just two kilometres from the Somme River. It is the only Australian Divisional Memorial which has changed … 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
Cobbers Perspective
The younger generations of Australia were represented recently at the unveiling of the Cobbers Statute in Melbourne on the 19th July. FFFAIF member Hector McDonald and his daughter Paige attended the unveiling of the statue and the commemorative service for … Continue reading
Listening Post
The Cross of Remembrance 2008 is currently on display at the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance. Neil Perry was inspired to create this cross in memory of all those who served and died at the Battle of Fromelles, including his great Uncle … Continue reading
More Cobbers
The new Cobbers Statutes now stands proudly in the southern end of the Shrine of Remembrance precinct in Melbourne. It was unveiled on the 92nd anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles and stands as a symbol and reminder to all … Continue reading
Twin Cobbers
Memorial services will take place today in Sydney and Melbourne for the 92nd anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles, fought on the Western Front in France, 19 July 1916 during the Great War 1914-1918. The Battle of Fromelles caused the … Continue reading
Kenmore Hospital
“Kenmore and War Exhibition” (WWI & WWII) “Within the grounds of Kenmore Hospital opposite the Administration building is the Hospital’s War Memorial. This memorial lists the names of 68 members of staff who served in WWI & WWII. Who … Continue reading