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.
“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 THE CROSS OF SACRIFICE. ADDRESSES IN SCHOOLS. THE joint honorary secretaries of the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Canon David J. Garland and Captain E.R.B. Pike) [ David John Garland and Eustace Royston Baum Pike ] have been advised that the Governor-General (Lord Forster)[ Sir Henry William Forster ] Read more…
ORIGINATOR OF ANZAC DAY. THE death of Mr. T.A. Ryan [ Thomas Augustine Ryan ], one of the most prominent figures in Brisbane commercial circles, and the city’s oldest auctioneer, occurred on Thursday week [ 27 December 1923 ] at his residence, Wienholt-street, Auchenflower. To Mr. Ryan is given the Read more…
CANON JONES MEMORIAL. SCHOOL CHAPEL FOUNDATION STONE LAID. CEREMONY AT EAST BRISBANE. “THE object of the Grammar School is the training of character on the foundation of the Christian faith. That work Is doubly hard without a school chapel. This chapel will be the fortress of the boys’ religion, and Read more…