Exploring the evolution of Anzac Day from its roots in acknowledging the sacrifice of The Fallen in the Boer War through to Canon Garland’s final Anzac Day service.
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…
ABOVE: Queenslanders lucky enough to own a radiogram could tune into Brisbane’s Radio 4QG on Anzac Day 1927 from 7:55pm for The Citizens’ Anzac Day Committee’s [sic] “live” broadcast from the Royal National Association Exhibition Hall on Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills. The entree to the 65-minute-long service featured: An address Read more…
THE LATE COLONEL THYNNE. AT a meeting of the Council of the New Settlers’ League, held in the [ Brisbane ] Town Hall yesterday [ 3 March 1927 ], Canon Garland [ David John Garland ], who was in the chair, in moving a vote of condolence with Mrs. Thynne [ Read more…
ANZAC MEMORIAL. FAMOUS SCULPTOR’S DESIGN. “IDEAL SITE CHOSEN.” QUEENSLAND’S WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY. SIR Bertram Mackennal [ sic, Edgar Bertram Mackennal ] was present at a special meeting of the ANZAC Memorial Committee at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon [ 24 January 1927 ]. He submitted a rough design of a memorial, which was approved. He Read more…
ABOVE: Canon David Garland was “on the air” as early as Monday, 9 August 1926, as this excerpt from “The Northern Star” (Lismore, New South Wales) of 7 August 1926 (page 9), reveals. Fr Garland had two hard acts to follow – Australia’s Governor-General, The Lord Stonehaven [ Sir John Lawrence 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…