ANZAC Day Origins

Brisbane’s national memorial

THE MEMORIAL. Representative of the State. STATEMENT BY THE COMMITTEE. Mr. H.J. Diddams, C.M.G. [ Henry John Charles Diddams ], chairman of the executive of the Queensland National ANZAC Memorial Committee, has forwarded the following statement to “The Telegraph”:– The erection of a national, memorial in Brisbane, the metropolis of the State of Queensland, commemorative of the sacrifice made by the men of our forces who fell In the Great War (1914-1918) has been long delayed. This Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago
Excerpt from "The Telegraph" of 25 April 1927 (page 3).

On the airwaves

ABOVE: Queenslanders lucky enough to own a radiogram could tune into Brisbane’s Radio 4QG on Anzac Day 1927 from 7:55pm for The Citizens’ Anzac Day Committee’s [sic] “live” broadcast from the Royal National Association Exhibition Hall on Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills. The entree to the 65-minute-long service featured: An address by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, William Alfred Jolly; classic hymn “Nearer My God to Thee”; an address and resolution delivered by Acting Premier of Queensland, William Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

Andrew Thynne tribute

THE LATE COLONEL THYNNE. AT a meeting of the Council of the New Settlers’ League, held in the [ Brisbane ] Town Hall yesterday [ 3 March 1927 ], Canon Garland [ David John Garland ], who was in the chair, in moving a vote of condolence with Mrs. Thynne [ Christina Jane Thynne, formerly Corrie, née Macpherson ], one of the Councillors, upon the passing away of her husband, Colonel Thynne, said there had been Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

ANZAC Memorial design

ANZAC MEMORIAL. FAMOUS SCULPTOR’S DESIGN. “IDEAL SITE CHOSEN.” QUEENSLAND’S WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY. SIR Bertram Mackennal [ sic, Edgar Bertram Mackennal ] was present at a special meeting of the ANZAC Memorial Committee at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon [ 24 January 1927 ]. He submitted a rough design of a memorial, which was approved. He will later submit a complete design. “You have a wonderful opportunity to erect a noble monument on an ideal site in the centre of the Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago
Excerpt from "The Northern Star" (Lismore, New South Wales) newspaper of 7 August 1926, page 9.

On the airwaves

ABOVE: Canon David Garland was “on the air” as early as Monday, 9 August 1926, as this excerpt from “The Northern Star” (Lismore, New South Wales) of 7 August 1926 (page 9), reveals. Fr Garland had two hard acts to follow – Australia’s Governor-General, The Lord Stonehaven [ Sir John Lawrence Baird Stonehaven, the First Viscount Stonehaven, who was to officially open St Andrew’s Anglican Church at Lutwyche, Brisbane, later that same day ] – and Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

Sacred Spirit of Sacrifice

“THE SACRED SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE” BRISBANE’S TRIBUTE TO ANZACS COMMEMORATION AT THE EXHIBITION SPEECHES BY REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS   THE large and reverent audience at the Exhibition Hall last evening [ 26 April 1926 ], when the customary civic commemoration of Anzac Day took place, was proof that spirit of the day loses nothing either in popularity or intensity as the years glide by. The citizens’ tribute on this occasion was all the more notable because Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago