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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- 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
- Fromelles Day 2025 – Commemorating the 109th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles 19 July 1916
Monthly Archives: October 2008
*Gallipoli News
Gallipoli has been featured in two news stories this week. Human remains have been uncovered during road works on the Second Ridge Road, leading across No Man’s Land. Photo: Lone Pine from Second Ridge Road Gallipoli. [Munro Collection] The media … Continue reading
*Conscription Vote
Ninety two years ago the Australian people voted on the highly emotive issue of Conscription to fill the ranks of volunteers to serve in the AIF. This was in the context of the decline in recruitment following the losses at Fromelles and … 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
New Zealand News.
Today, 22 October 2008, sees the opening of the Shout V.C. Barracks at Linton, New Zealand. The barracks have been named after Captain Alfred John Shout VC, MC who served with F Company, 1st Infantry Battalion AIF on Gallipoli. The … Continue reading
Remembrance Day TV.
A note for your diary: ABC The ABC’s Four Corners program at 8;30pm on ABC1 on Monday 10th of November, the eve of Remembrance Day, will travel to the Western Front with historians from The Australian War Memorial and the … Continue reading
Lambert Exhibition.
If you live in Sydney or close by there is an opportunity to view The Australian War Memorial’s Travelling Exhibition, George LAMBERT: Gallipoli and Palestine Landscapes. The exhibition is now open at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. The … Continue reading
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
*Remembrance Day Venues.
Remembrance Day, 11th November 2008, is the 90th Anniversary of the signing of the Armistice at Compiegne, France. The Armistice signalled the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front between the Allies and Germany in 1918. This year many commemorative … 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