2023 Calendar of events
Saturday 22 April WFA Seminar, with FFFAIF John Laffin Memorial Lecture
Tuesday 25 April Anzac Day
FFFAIF has traditionally supported AWWOD organising descendants’ participation in the Sydney Anzac Day March.In 2023 FFFAIF will encourage “Dawn drive-way vigils”.
The RSL is promoting ‘Light up the Dawn’ gatherings on driveways and balconies and 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 FranceWednesday 19 July Fromelles Day Commemoration in Sydney at the Anzac Memorial and
Melbourne Wreath-laying at the Shrine of Remembrance and Ipswich in QueenslandSunday 23 July Pozieres Service St Columba Woollahra TBC
Tuesday 26 September Commemoration of the Battles of 3rd Ypres
Thursday 19 October War Widows Day
Saturday 21st October FFFAIF AGM and WFA Lecture Day
Venue: Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney and AGM On-line Zoom MeetingSaturday 11 November Remembrance Day
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Recent News
- Fromelles Day Sydney 19 July 2023: Commemorative Procession from the Archibald Fountain to the Anzac Memorial
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- Commemorating the 105th anniversary of the Battles of 3rd Ypres in 2022
- Fromelles Day Sydney 19 July 2022: Commemorative Procession from the Archibald Fountain to the Anzac Memorial and Commemorative Service
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Category Archives: Projects
AWM Honour Roll Photos
The Australian War Memorial is home to The Australian Roll of Honour which records and commemorates the names of Australia’s war dead. It takes the form of bronze panels in the Memorial’s Commemorative Area and the Roll of Honour database, which is … Continue reading
*3-D Battlefield Photos
Families and Friends of the First AIF Member Peter Morrissey of Coonabarabran, winner of the New South Wales 2008 Premier’s Westfield History Scholarship, has recently returned from his trip to Gallipoli and the Western Front. Photo: Peter Morrissey and daughter … Continue reading
Remembrance Tour Pt 2
Mackay North State High School’s Remembrance 2008 Commemorative Tour saw 32 students from the school visit the Western Front Battlefields as part of their recent tour. This was reported in the 14 October RECENT NEWS item Remembrance Tour. The culmination … Continue reading
*Remembrance Tour.
FFFAIF member Mike Goodwin has recently returned from leading the fifth overseas tour with students from the ‘Lest We Forget’ history project of Mackay North State School in Queensland. To glimpse some of what happened on the trip Mike has sent … Continue reading
Buried where he fell…
More news on the Australian Digger found, still carrying his full kit and holding his rifle, 91 years after he was killed on the Western Front in Belgium. The Australian: DNA testing could reveal WW1Digger’s identity. The Age: Buried where he … Continue reading
New Find In Belgium
From Fairfax Digital: the age.com.au Wednesday 20 August 5:11pm Old Aussie soldier uncovered in Belgium Ninety-one years ago, an Australian soldier fell dead on a Belgian battlefield and unnoticed by his mates, was buried, perhaps by a shell blast. Last … Continue reading
Call for Assistance
The Fromelles Descendant Database, in co-operation with British Historian Peter Barton, are seeking assistance in gathering evidence for the Fromelles study. Are you able to assist in the following request from Tim Lycett, Fromelles Descendant Database, in regard to Australian Soldiers … Continue reading
19th Bn AIF History
Colour patch of 19th Battalion FFFAIF member Wayne Matthews has been gathering material to publish a history of 19th Bn AIF, 1915 – 1919. The FFFAIF is providing some support to this effort by spreading the word that the project is … Continue reading
Our THANKS go to………
Our THANKS go to…………….. Lambis Englezos and those who assisted him for their untiring efforts throughout the years to ensure that the recently completed archaeological dig at Pheasant Wood near Fromelles took place. Lambis Englezos was the driving force behind … Continue reading
Bullecourt Remembers
‘We will remember them’ FFFAIF Western Front Representative, Yves Fohlen, has recently announced a new project at Bullecourt in co-operation with the Jean & Denise Letaille Museum Association. Yves says about the new project called “THEIR FACES”: The goal … Continue reading