Securing unity of purpose locally, interstate and beyond: 1920-1939.
CEREMONY AT TOOWONG. FOR OUR DEAD. Hear us, Son of God, O hear! We approach thee for our dead: Lead them in the vale of fear, By Thy wings around them spread. AN impressive not was lent at the Remembrance service at The Cross of Sacrifice and Stone of Remembrance, Read more…
CANON D.J. GARLAND Canon David John Garland, to whom the title of O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire) has been awarded, is known throughout the whole of Queensland and also in the other States of the Commonwealth. He was born in Dublin just 70 years ago, but came to Australia Read more…
CANON GARLAND’S LECTURE. CANON Garland [ David John Garland ], who is spending this weekend in Mackay, will lecture in the Parish Hall tonight at 8 on the Church Revival Centenary. Canon Garland is one of the leading church men of Brisbane and is very well known in North Queensland. He Read more…
‘THIS HOLY SPOT’ Cross of Sacrifice THEY came from all suburbs to The Cross of Sacrifice in the Toowong Cemetery. There were men with medals and ribbons, wives and mothers, and other women in black, and the little ones who know naught of war except what it had graved in the characters of their elders. They brought marguerites, while Read more…
Chapel Dedicated. KITCHENER MEMORIAL. Parish Church at Maleny. SUNDAY, 6 September [ 1931 ], marked a new era in the life of the Church of England community in Maleny. A new church has been built and on Sunday was dedicated under the name of “St. George” although the building will more usually be known as the “Kitchener Memorial Read more…
AT TOOWONG Ceremony at Cross of Sacrifice. PAYING eleven tributes of flowers, the newly-cleaned Cross of Sacrifice and Stone of Remembrance in the Toowong Cemetery had an outer frame of reverent men, women and children who had come to honour The Fallen at a memorial service conducted by Canon D.J. Read more…