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.
SHOULD HELP. SPIRIT OF ANZAC, OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES. IN the shadow of the trees by The Stone of Remembrance many hundreds gathered at Toowong cemetery on Saturday morning [ 25 April 1931 ] for the impressive service, conducted by Canon D.J. Garland [ David John Garland ], assisted by Rev. N. Bertram Read more…
ABOVE: Woolloongabba’s Holy Trinity Church as it looked in October 1930. The church sign (since removed) seen in the mid-left foreground of this photograph is on the approximate spot where the proposed Canon Garland Anzac Origins memorial will be erected in 2016. New Church opened. Dedication of Holy Trinity. Impressive Service. “I declare this Read more…
TRIBUTE TO SERVICE. National Memorial. UNVEILING OF TABLET. ANZAC Square which has been the scene of much industry in recent weeks became the scene of more solemnity on Saturday [ 24 May 1930 ] when the Governor (Sir John Goodwin) [ Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin ] unveiled the inscription tablet on the Read more…
ABOVE: An artist’s impression of how civic authorities,The Queensland National Anzac Memorial Committee, the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia (Queensland Branch) and the Queensland Anzac Day Commemoration Committee envisaged Brisbane’s future “National Anzac War Memorial” (between inner-city Adelaide and Ann Streets) was likely to look. This drawing appeared in Read more…
HONOURED DEAD. PILGRIMAGE TO CEMETERY. HAWTHORNE ANGLICAN SERVICE. “Just as a child is born into this world with the instinct of hunger for food, and it is fed, and as it is born into the world with eyes to see, and is shown light, so we exercise an instinct in 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…