The early years prior to The Great War: associations with Australian troop contingents.
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…
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…
AT THE SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE Impressive Tribute to Fallen Heroes ADDRESS BY CANON GARLAND THAT the spirit of remembrance for Australia’s Fallen still is strong in the land for which they gave their lives was shown by the great gathering which assembled at The Cross of Sacrifice and The Read more…
THE MEMORIAL. Representative of the State. STATEMENT BY THE COMMITTEE. Mr. H.J. Diddams, C.M.G. [ Henry John Charles Diddams ], chairman of the executive of the Queensland National ANZAC Memorial Committee, has forwarded the following statement to “The Telegraph”:– The erection of a national, memorial in Brisbane, the metropolis of the State Read more…
“THE SACRED SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE” BRISBANE’S TRIBUTE TO ANZACS COMMEMORATION AT THE EXHIBITION SPEECHES BY REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS THE large and reverent audience at the Exhibition Hall last evening [ 26 April 1926 ], when the customary civic commemoration of Anzac Day took place, was proof that spirit of the Read more…