Welcome to the official website of the Families and Friends of the First AIF.
Ninety four years ago, on 3rd December 1914, the First AIF disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt, after sailing from Albany Western Australia four weeks earlier. Read more about their arrival, from those who were there, in RECENT NEWS item, AIF arrive in Egypt.
Photo: AIF Camp at Mena, Egypt, circa February 1915. [Munro Collection]
Read about the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s plans for Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, in RECENT NEWS item, Villers-Bretonneux renovations.
Find out about the launch of Robin Corfield’s new book, Give me back by dear old cobbers - the story of the 58th and 59th Australian Infantry Battalions, in RECENT NEWS item: Book Launch Invite.
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The Families and Friends of the First AIF thanks the Australian, UK and French governments for affording Australian and British soldiers - presently buried in mass graves at Pheasant Wood - dignified individual reburials in a new CWGC cemetery at Fromelles, and applauds Minister Snowdon and his British counterpart, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Veterans, Kevan Jones MP, for their joint decision to DNA test the remains at exhumation and use every reasonable method to attempt identification of each soldier.
Australians in The Great War in December
3 December 1915 Siege of Kut begins in Mesopotamia.
7 December 1915 Evacuation of ANZAC troops from Gallipoli begins.
9 December 1917 Jerusalem occupied by the Desert Mounted Corps.
12 December 1917 HMAS Australia damaged in a collision with HMS Repulse.
13 December 1915 Australian Light Horse fight at Um Rakham.
20 December 1915 Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
20 December 1917 Second conscription referendum held in Australia.
21 December 1916 Australian Light Horse capture El Arish
23 December 1916 Battle of Magdhaba, northern Sinai
31 December 1914 The second convoy of the First AIF departed Albany Western Australia.
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