IMPRESSIVE VIOLET DAY OBSERVANCE. ALTHOUGH Sunday [ 13 July 1920 ] broke with a glory of brilliant sunshine, the city in the afternoon was overcast with dull, grey clouds which fitted in appropriately with annual Violet Day celebration in memory of those gallant men who laid down their lives in Read more…
CHURCH OF ENGLAND HELP SOCIETY. LADY Morgan [ Alice Augusta Morgan, neé Clinton ] and Mrs. W.H. Campbell [ Mary Simmonds Campbell, neé Powell ] (representing the [ Soldiers’ ] Church of England Help Society) were hostesses at morning tea at The ANZAC Club yesterday to welcome the members of Synod and their wives. Read more…
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…
ABOVE: This was, for a great number of Queensland’s First AIF returned soldiers, the first time they could smile again after the ravages of trench life in the Great War. Managed by a returned soldier with the additional supervision of a former Army Nursing Service Matron, “The Rest House”, behind the Read more…
ABOVE: The Christmas Eucharist Service at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was celebrated by Canon David Garland at the invitation of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Constantine Damianos, in December 1917. When General Allenby entered Jerusalem at the head of the victorious British Expeditionary Force he Read more…
OUR SOLDIER BOYS. ‘Nothing is too good for our Soldiers.’ I am writing with feelings of anger and sadness. I was coming this morning [ Wednesday, 15 October 1919 ] from Rosemount Hospital in a tram, when turning a corner in the city, I saw stepping off the pavement a Read more…