Exploring the evolution of Anzac Day from its roots in acknowledging the sacrifice of The Fallen in the Boer War through to Canon Garland’s final Anzac Day service.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN. SOLEMN CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST. SERVICE IN ST. JOHN’S CATHEDRAL. SINCE St John’s Cathedral has been erected there has perhaps been no other occasion on which so solemn a service has taken place within its walls, or one which will be so much appreciated at the present time, as that held yesterday morning Read more…
CANON GARLAND. CHAPLAIN IN QUEENSLAND TRAINING CAMP. FEELING that it is not desirable, in the interests of Imperial unity, to continue at the present time the agitation for Bible in schools, Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] has, at the request of the Archbishop of Brisbane [ St Clair Read more…
ABOVE: Some of the estimated 3,000 troops – including men from the Queensland-raised 26th Infantry Battalion, 11th Australian Light Horse regiment and other elements of the 7th Infantry Brigade – paraded through the streets of inner Brisbane on Saturday morning, 29 May 1915. The following Monday evening more than 700 Brisbane citizens pledged to abstain from drinking Read more…
SERMON BY CANON GARLAND. CANON Garland [ David John Garland ] preaching in Christ Church, Milton, last night [ 23 May 1915 ], said he had learned from headquarters that the number of applications for enlistment from the Brisbane area had been 200 to 10 a.m. on Saturday [ 22 Read more…
‘FOLLOW ENGLAND AND INTERN ENEMY ALIENS’ The excerpt below appeared in a lengthy article in Sydney’s “The Sunday Times” in its 16 May 1915 edition on page 14. The story reported statements of Australian business, community and political identities under the headings: ‘Follow England and Intern Enemy Aliens’/‘Sunday Times Collects Symposium of Opinions’/‘MAJORITY AGREE THAT ACTION SHOULD Read more…