Securing unity of purpose locally, interstate and beyond: 1920-1939.
TOOWONG MEMORIAL. GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S EULOGY UNVEILING CEREMONY THE spirit animating the large concourse of people in the Toowong Cemetery yesterday morning [ 25 April 1924 ] on the occasion of the unveiling of The Cross of Sacrifice and The Stone of Remembrance was a pathetic blending of sorrow and pride. There Read more…
“LEST WE FORGET.” KIPLING’S magic sentence fitly expresses the Australian feeling behind the continued observance of Anzac Day. The public memory is said to be short, and short it is on most matters, but not where the heart is touched so deeply as it is by the story of Gallipoli Read more…
FOR LIFE AND LIBERTY. “ALL THAT THEY HAD THEY GAVE.” GLORIOUS MEMORIES OF ANZAC. NINE years have flown since a comparatively small body of the soldier sons of Australia and New Zealand stirred the world and fired the imagination of friend and foe alike by a deed of heroism unparalleled Read more…
REMEMBRANCE. THE most massive stone ever hewn from a Queensland quarry is being dedicated today [ 25 April 1924 ] to the memory of those who fell or died of wounds or sickness as our soldiers in the Great War. There is an ancestral touch about this memorial, a reminiscence Read more…
ANZAC DAY. OBSERVANCE MORE GENERAL. PREMIERS’ CONFERENCE DECISION. THE seventh [ sic ] observance of Anzac Day had been better than on any previous occasion and the feeling of the people had been more intense while the method of celebration had become crystallised said Canon D.J. Garland [ David John Garland ] Read more…
HEROISM AND SACRIFICE. LOVE AND ENDURANCE. THE ANZAC IDEALS. TYPIFIED IN THE UNION JACK. “If the ideals for which these men fought and died so nobly are to be perpetuated,” said Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] in the course of a stirring address in the Exhibition Hall last Read more…