The early years prior to The Great War: associations with Australian troop contingents.
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…
ABOVE: Despite being subjected to relentless social, family and peer pressure to enlist in the First AIF during the darkest days of World War I – with stalemate on the Western Front and reams of casualty lists appearing in newspapers every day – perhaps some of these Central Queensland enlistees were persuaded to “do Read more…
TO: Lieut. J.A. Collum [ John (“Jack”) Athelstan Collum* ], Army Service Corps, c/o. Rev. W.W. Williams, Vicarage, Midsomer Norton, England. Box 47, Brisbane. 24th April 1917. “My dear Mr. Collum, “Your lengthy letter received and is of great interest to me. “I do not quite know what to do with the Read more…
ANZAC DAY, FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT. CHURCH SERVICES IN CITY. SERVICES will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow [ 25 April 1917 ] as follows:— Church of England, St. John’s Cathedral, Ann-street; Roman Catholic, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Elizabeth-street; Presbyterian, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Creek-street; Methodist, Albert-street Methodist Church; “other denominations”, Wharf-street Congregational Church. Read more…
ST. JAMES’ RECTOR. CHAPLAIN ON TROOPSHIP. HONOURED BY PARISHIONERS. LAST NIGHT’S PRESENTATIONS. FOR a considerable time efforts have been made to ensure that no troopship should leave Australian shores unaccompanied by Chaplains. Hitherto the practice of the authorities has been to provide salaried Chaplain on boats carrying large numbers of Read more…