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ANZAC Day Bill

ANZAC DAY BILL, 1921. Second Reading QUEENSLAND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The SECRETARY FOR MINES [ Alfred James Jones ] : “This is a Bill to constitute Anzac Day a national holiday. The Bill is really so self-explanatory that it does not need me to make a second reading speech on it. “Clause 2 reads

Canon Garland invested

On Sunday [ 10 July 1921 ] at St. Barnabas’ Church, Waterworks-road, the Rev. Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] was invested with the Gold Cross of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, conferred upon him by his Beatitude, Damianos [ Constantine Damianos ] Patriarch of Jerusalem. The ceremony was performed on behalf of the

Violet Day in Adelaide

IMPRESSIVE VIOLET DAY OBSERVANCE. ALTHOUGH Sunday [ 13 July 1920 ] broke with a glory of brilliant sunshine, the city in the afternoon was overcast with dull, grey clouds which fitted in appropriately with annual Violet Day celebration in memory of those gallant men who laid down their lives in the war.

Help Society welcome

CHURCH OF ENGLAND HELP SOCIETY. LADY Morgan [ Alice Augusta Morgan, neé Clinton ] and Mrs. W.H. Campbell [ Mary Simmonds Campbell, neé Powell ] (representing the [ Soldiers’ ] Church of England Help Society) were hostesses at morning tea at The ANZAC Club yesterday to welcome the members of Synod and their wives.In

The Birdwood Visit

ABOVE: This photo was taken of members of the Brisbane official reception party for General Birdwood (including the Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman James Francis Maxwell, at the centre of shot, in mayoral robes). From the State Library of Queensland Collection. Negative number: 142549.Parliamentary Banquet. Talk About Neutrality. Fine Tribute

Our Soldier Boys

ABOVE: This was, for a great number of Queensland's First AIF returned soldiers, the first time they could smile again after the ravages of trench life in the Great War. Managed by a returned soldier with the additional supervision of a former Army Nursing Service Matron, “The Rest

Debt owed to the Greeks

ABOVE: The Christmas Eucharist Service at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was celebrated by Canon David Garland at the invitation of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Constantine Damianos, in December 1917. When General Allenby entered Jerusalem at the head of the victorious British Expeditionary Force he

Our Soldier Boys

OUR SOLDIER BOYS. ‘Nothing is too goodfor our Soldiers.’ I am writing with feelings of anger and sadness.I was coming this morning [ Wednesday, 15 October 1919 ] from Rosemount Hospital in a tram, when turning a corner in the city, I saw stepping off the pavement a man in civilian

Welcome home

CANON GARLAND WELCOMED. MR. HUGHES AND A WHITE AUSTRALIA. HIGH TRIBUTES TO HIS WORK. THE welcome home extended to Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] in the Albert Hall last night [ 16 September 1919 ] by members of the Soldiers’ Church of England Help Society was largely attended. The hall was tastefully

Egyptian rebellion incidents

CHAPLAIN GARLAND. INCIDENTS OF EGYPTIAN REBELLION. WHEN a “Daily Mail” representative found Chaplain-Colonel Garland, V.D. [ David John Garland, Volunteer Detachment ], who returned to Brisbane on Tuesday [ 9 September 1919 ], after an absence of about two years in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, he was very busily engaged and carried on