CONTENTS
Trench talk
Stories of Christmas Day 1914-16
‘Our Sisters’ – a tribute to the nurses
Sister Jessie Slack
Sister Gertrude Grewar
Sergeant Jack Walsh MM, 3rd MG Bn
Instructions for proceeding on leave to UK
Australian military aviation and WWI
Letters from an AFC man: Lt HW Miller
ANZAC weekend in Belgium, Oct 2007
Mentioned in Despatches (Sgt C Bayliss)
Remembering John Hamilton VC
Shell shock
The Popplewell brothers
Photo of 17th Battery, 6th Army FAB
Private John (‘Long Jack’) Deans, 3rd Bn
The graves of Victor Worthington
Corporal Norman Temple, 5th Pioneer Bn
The Carey Brothers, 53rd Bn
Private Alfred Gilligan, 53rd Bn
Private John Purcell, 55th Bn/15th FAB
Gunner Pearce goes to town
Private G Miller, 23rd Bn: a lucky survivor
Private Walter Clift and nephews, 50th Bn
Sergeant HJ Yeend, 24th Bn: Part 8
Sgt-Mjr William Egan, 6th FAB
Corporal James Brazel, 2nd Bn (Part 1)
2007 Melbourne AGM Report
Albert Jacka – a biased view?
Interview with an AWM Art Conservator
Signaller Skeyhill’s sight restored
Journey to the battlefields of the W. Front
Etched in Stone
Digger Quiz
The Red Cross camp at Havre; New books
Digger Quiz answers
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
- DIGGER 94
- 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