Securing unity of purpose locally, interstate and beyond: 1920-1939.
ABOVE: This photo was taken of members of the Brisbane official reception party for General Birdwood (including the Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman James Francis Maxwell, at the centre of shot, in mayoral robes). From the State Library of Queensland Collection. Negative number: 142549. Parliamentary Banquet. Talk About Neutrality. Fine Tribute Read more…
CANON GARLAND RETURNS. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL Chaplain D.J. Garland, V.D., [ David John Garland ] returned to Brisbane last night [ 10 September 1919 ] after nearly two years’ service with the A.I.F. in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. He was looking very well. In course of conversation, he paid tribute to the Read more…
ANZAC Day in Cairo. AUSTRALIANS in Cairo were provided an opportunity of observing ANZAC Day much to their satisfaction. A number of soldiers came down the line and were given board and lodging, free of cost, at the Australian Soldiers’ Club for three days. On ANZAC morning [ 25 April 1919 Read more…
ECHOES OF THE WORLD AT WAR LEST WE FORGET THE EMPIRES HONOURED DEAD Memorials to the Fallen WORK OF THE IMPERIAL COMMISSION ON behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission, of which he is a member, Mr. Rudyard Kipling has supplied an account of its effort to secure a fitting Read more…
ABOVE: This photograph of Lieutenant (as he was then) Eustace Royston Baum Pike appeared in “The Queenslander Pictorial” supplement of “The Queenslander” on 23 January 1915. When Chaplain Lieutenant-Colonel Garland volunteered for military chaplaincy duties with the troops fighting on the Middle Eastern Front in 1918, Captain Pike assumed the honorary secretaryship of Read more…
ANZAC DAY. YESTERDAY’S COMMEMORATION. MILITARY PARADE IN THE CITY. IN addition to the Anzac memorial services, reported in “The Daily Standard” yesterday [ 25 April 1918 ], there were other notable Church gatherings in Brisbane. A united memorial service was held in the City Tabernacle, at which the president of Read more…