ANZAC Day No.2
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.
Luncheon will be provided after the service in the above churches.
Service also will be held in the Hebrew Synagogue, Margaret-street, at 11 a.m.
As it is anticipated that St. John’s Cathedral will be filled when Archbishop Donaldson will celebrate the memorial Eucharist, arrangements have been made for an additional service, which will be held at the same hour at All Saints’ Church, Wickham-terrace, when Rev. Canon Garland, V.D. [ David John Garland, Voluntary Detachment ], chaplain, will preach.
The service in All Saints’ will be the same as that used at the church parade for troops in camp.
Returned soldiers for the above services will fall in at 10.30 in Albert-square, and march according to their respective denominations.
Those unable to march will find their own way to their church where accommodation will be reserved for them.
Badges will be on sale during the day in the streets, to be worn in memory of The Fallen.
They are dark blue ribbon, printed in gold. Archbishop Duhig has taken 2,000 for sale before the service in St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
Canon Garland, honorary secretary of the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee, states that in most of the country towns, shops and office are being closed during the hour of the ANZAC memorial service.
He expresses the hope that businessmen in Brisbane will at least make provision as far as possible for employees in shops and offices to attend the ANZAC memorial services at 11 a.m.
He reminds all concerned of the understanding arrived at that at 9 p.m. there shall be one minute of silence, with the necessary cessation of traffic and business, as the people’s universal tribute to the memory of The Fallen.
The trains throughout the State and the trams in Brisbane will stop for one minute.
Canon Garland asks the drivers of all vehicles to do the same.
Managers of all places of amusement are requested to ask their audiences to stand in silence for the same minute, and it is suggested that appropriate music might be rendered where possible, or the audience asked to sing the National Anthem when the minute’s silence expires.
– from page 2 of “The Daily Standard” (Brisbane) of 24 April 1917.
PICTURED ABOVE: Such was the patriotic fervour gripping Queensland that Brisbane’s afternoon daily newspaper, “The Telegraph”, in its 22 February 1917 editions ran this “Pick Your Own Mates” coupon (page 6) to further the recruiting campaign for First AIF enlistees. Note that “each Special Reinforcement will have its own place in the Great Procession, to be held on ANZAC Day, 25th April, 1917”. The “Mates” motif was modelled on Great Britain’s appeal for contingents of “Pals” to sign-up.
