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Memorials to The Fallen

ECHOES OF THE WORLD AT WAR LEST WE FORGET THE EMPIRES HONOURED DEAD Memorials to the Fallen WORK OF THE IMPERIAL COMMISSION ON behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission, of which he is a member, Mr. Rudyard Kipling has supplied an account of its effort to secure a fitting

Helping the troops

CHURCH WORK FOR SOLDIERS. EGYPT, PALESTINE, AND SYRIA. SOLDIERS’ CHURCH OF ENGLAND HELP SOCIETY. THE [ Soldiers’ ] Church of England Help Society has received a report from their representative abroad (Colonel the Rev. Canon D.J. Garland, V.D.) [ David John Garland ] containing a report of the Society’s work in

ANZAC Day No.4

ABOVE: This photograph of Lieutenant (as he was then) Eustace Royston Baum Pike appeared in “The Queenslander Pictorial” supplement of “The Queenslander” on 23 January 1915. When Chaplain Lieutenant-Colonel Garland volunteered for military chaplaincy duties with the troops fighting on the Middle Eastern Front in 1918, Captain Pike assumed the

Catalyst for formation

THE LATE CANON THOMAS JONES. A REMINISCENT TRIBUTE. (By D.J.G., with the A.I.F. abroad.)* My first acquaintance with the Venerable Thomas Jones was made in the year 1887, when he was Archdeacon of the Darling Downs and Rector of St James’s, Toowoomba. It was not

July in Jerusalem

THE NEW JERUSALEM. CANON Garland [ David John Garland ] writes from Jerusalem, in respect to the Church of England Australian Fund for Soldiers, on July 26:— “In strolling through the old city of Jerusalem I was struck by the improvement and cleanliness, showing how our advent is making itself felt. “The

Work of the chaplains

WORK OF THE CHAPLAINS. On the Palestine Front. THE following letter from the Rev. Maitland Woods (well known in Brisbane) [ William Maitland Woods ] recently appeared in the Sydney “Church Standard”:– “I wonder if the church people of Australia know what Chaplain Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] is doing for our

Our Soldier Boys

ABOVE: The “Writing and Reading Room” inside The Anzac Club, set up inside St Luke’s Church, Charlotte Street, in inner-city Brisbane by Canon Garland and The Soldiers’ Church of England Help Society in 1915. When the third annual general meeting of the Society was held in May 1918, this

Riverboat on the Nile

ABOVE: A fleet of house-boats tied up along a Nile River landing at Cairo in about 1915. In July 1918 Canon Garland sought to buy one of these vessels with money raised through the “Lavender Day Appeal" by The Anzac Club, located inside St Luke’s Church, Charlotte Street,

ANZAC Day No.3

ANZAC DAY. YESTERDAY’S COMMEMORATION. MILITARY PARADE IN THE CITY. IN addition to the Anzac memorial services, reported in “The Daily Standard” yesterday [ 25 April 1918 ], there were other notable Church gatherings in Brisbane. A united memorial service was held in the City Tabernacle, at which the president of the

Soldiers' Help Society

SOLDIERS’ HELP SOCIETY. THE regular meeting of the Soldiers’ Church of England Help Society was held in The ANZAC Club on Tuesday afternoon [ 12 March 1918 ]. Mrs. W.H. Campbell [ Mary Simmonds Campbell, neé Powell ] presided, and Bishop Le Fanu (acting director) [ Henry Frewen Le Fanu ] and Lady Morgan [ Alice