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Families and Friends of the First AIF
On Remembrance Day, 11 November, we remember the fallen and all who serve and protect our nation. At 11am please encourage those around you to observe a minute’s silence and reflect on the debt we owe those who fought to protect and preserve our freedom. Lest We Forget.
Russell Curley, President, Families and Friends of the First AIF Inc.
Find out about Remembrance Day Services in RECENT NEWS Item: Remembrance Day.
The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne has been declared a national memorial by The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Alan Griffin. Read more about the declaration and the memorial’s anniversary in RECENT NEWS Item: The Shrine.
On Saturday 7 November 2009 a Commemorative Plaque to recognise the sacrifice and service of the members of the 45th Infantry Battalion was unveiled at Mortdale Memorial Park, Boundary Road Mortdale in front of a crowd of over 100 people. For more details on the service see RECENT NEWS Item: 45th Btn Plaque unveiled.
For details on the work Tim Lycett and Sandra Playle, the founders of www.fromelles.net in tracing the family trees of the ‘missing from Fromelles’ see RECENT NEWS Item: Men of Fromelles.
The Victorian Branch of the Military History Society of Australia is hosting a talk by Lambis Englezos entitled Fromelles and Pheasant Wood. For details see RECENT NEWS Item: MHSA Fromelles Talk.
A REMINDER THAT THIS SUNDAY: The Families and Friends of the First AIF is hosting a Members’ Forum on 15 November, 2009. The forum will provide an opportunity to come along to meet informally with fellow FFFAIF members and share your experiences, information, memorabilia and resources in a ‘show & tell’ forum. To find out more about the forum see RECENT NEWS Item: Members’ Forum.
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The Families and Friends of First AIF inaugural Commemorative Tour will spend 14 days on the Battlefields of the Western Front from 14th July – 27th July 2010. Find out more in RECENT NEWS Item: FFFAIF 2010 Tour, Tour Update and Tour Filling Fast!!!!!!
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The Australian Army Fromelles Project website carries the latest Fromelles Project update as at 27 October Update.
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The FFFAIF website will continue to follow the activities at Pheasant Wood and Fromelles and our RECENT NEWS Items will be updated when information and photographs become available.
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Did you know that all the RECENT NEWS items which have been posted on the website are still available for you to read? They are stored under Past News and can be accessed by either:
Using the Search Field located on the top right of web page (near the Member’s Area tab). Simply enter the topic you are searching for in the search field at the top of the screen and click enter.
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By using the PAST NEWS drop down menu, located below the FFFAIF Photo strip, on the right hand side of this page.
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1 November 1914 1st AIF Convoy sails from Albany, Western Australia.
7 November 1916 Third Battle of Gaza.
9 November 1914 HMAS Sydney sinks the Emden.
11 November 1918 Germany signs the Armistice. REMEMBRANCE DAY.
11 November 1941 Opening of the Australian War Memorial.
14 November 1917 End of Third Battle of Ypres, Western Front.
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The Families and Friends of the First AIF applauds the joint Australian–UK decision, announced by The Hon Greg Combet AM MP and the Hon Kevan Jones MP, to conduct a full DNA testing program on the remains of Australian and British soldiers found in mass graves at Pheasant Wood (Fromelles), and for their continuing commitment to identify as many of the fallen as is possible. We also thank the Australian, UK and French governments for affording dignified individual reburials for these soldiers, buried by German soldiers following the Battle of Fromelles on 19/20 July 1916, in the new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery presently under construction at Fromelles.
