Chaplain Davies honoured

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…

By The Garland Collection, 108 yearsJuly 25, 1916 ago

'Nothing is Too Good for Our Soldiers.'

ANZAC Club opened

To: No. 20907, Gunner F.T. Baker [ Frederick Thomas Baker ], 34th Battery, 9th Field Artillery Brigade, 3rd Australian Division. Box 47, Brisbane. 19th July 1916. “My dear Fred, “I am very glad to have a letter from you, and to know you are having a good time at sea. “I wonder Read more…

By The Garland Collection, 108 yearsJuly 19, 1916 ago

July 1916

Foundations of ANZAC Day