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.
ANZAC DAY. COMMEMORATION, 25 APRIL 1916. IT will be remembered that on 10 January 1916, a public meeting was held in Brisbane, presided over by the Mayor of Brisbane (Alderman Down) [ George Down ], and addressed by his Excellency the Governor (Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams), the State Premier (Hon. T.J. Ryan) Read more…
‘Mere preachment and talk does not satisfy them’ – Garland TO: The Rev. Chaplain Captain C. Warren Tomkins Australian Imperial Forces, EGYPT Box 47, Brisbane, 18th Jany. 1916 My dear Captain Tomkins [ Charles Warren Tomkins* ], it was most good of you to write to me your letter of the 23rd November, which reached me last week. Read more…
THE SOLDIERS’ CONDUCT. Canon Garland [ David John Garland ], resident chaplain at the camps, states that the conduct of the men in camp during Christmastide was wholly admirable. He had been in all the camps during the holidays, had mixed with the men in their huts and tents, and Read more…
ABOVE: Soldiers and officers crowd the decks of the Hospital Transport Vessel “Galeka” and the HMAT “Seang Bee” during a Church Parade conducted from the forecastle. The transports would shortly leave the Greek island of Lemnos to land at Gallipoli. The bay at Mudros was so crowded that the ships were Read more…
CORRESPONDENCE: CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS FOR SOLDIERS IN CAMP. (To the Editor). Sir,— WOULD you be good enough to allow me room in your paper to say that I have just received a letter from Canon Garland (Lieut. Colonel) [ David John Garland ] stating that the [ Soldiers’ ] Church of Read more…
ABOVE: This photo illustrated the column penned by Canon Garland (transcribed below) which appeared in the 1 November 1915 issue of the Church of England (Anglican) monthly newspaper, “The Church Chronicle” (page 229). The caption read: “Our chaplains at work: An open-air Church Parade”. First AIF soldiers are shown attending as a Read more…