This year marks the 94th anniversary of the battle, and the commemoration ceremony will coincide with the opening of the Fromelles Military Cemetery in France.
The service at the Cobbers memorial on the Shrine Reserve will include a wreath laying ceremony, and the reading of the names of the 212 Australians, whose bodies are being reinterred in the Pheasant Wood Cemetery.
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On July 19, 1916, the small village in northern France became the first major battleground for Australians on the Western Front during the First World War.
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