“LEST WE FORGET.” KIPLING’S magic sentence fitly expresses the Australian feeling behind the continued observance of Anzac Day. The public memory is said to be short, and short it is on most matters, but not where the heart is touched so deeply as it is by the story of Gallipoli and all that it stands for. So today, for the eighth year, we are remembering soberly and solemnly, the sacrifices that were made on April Read more…
FOR LIFE AND LIBERTY. “ALL THAT THEY HAD THEY GAVE.” GLORIOUS MEMORIES OF ANZAC. NINE years have flown since a comparatively small body of the soldier sons of Australia and New Zealand stirred the world and fired the imagination of friend and foe alike by a deed of heroism unparalleled in history. In a short 24 hours — short in time, but long in the agony of their suffering — on the rugged cliffs and Read more…
REMEMBRANCE. THE most massive stone ever hewn from a Queensland quarry is being dedicated today [ 25 April 1924 ] to the memory of those who fell or died of wounds or sickness as our soldiers in the Great War. There is an ancestral touch about this memorial, a reminiscence of those hoary monoliths and cromlechs that are the sole mark on English soil of heroes whose dust, whose names, and whose deeds had otherwise Read more…
ANZAC DAY THE CROSS OF SACRIFICE. ADDRESSES IN SCHOOLS. THE joint honorary secretaries of the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Canon David J. Garland and Captain E.R.B. Pike) [ David John Garland and Eustace Royston Baum Pike ] have been advised that the Governor-General (Lord Forster)[ Sir Henry William Forster ] has approved the draft programme for the unveiling and dedication the Cross of Sacrifice and Stone of Remembrance at Toowong Cemetery. The ceremony will therefore Read more…
ORIGINATOR OF ANZAC DAY. THE death of Mr. T.A. Ryan [ Thomas Augustine Ryan ], one of the most prominent figures in Brisbane commercial circles, and the city’s oldest auctioneer, occurred on Thursday week [ 27 December 1923 ] at his residence, Wienholt-street, Auchenflower. To Mr. Ryan is given the credit for the foundation of ANZAC Day. CAREER OF THE DECEASED. The late Mr. Ryan was born in Bathurst, New South Wales, and was one of Read more…
CANON JONES MEMORIAL. SCHOOL CHAPEL FOUNDATION STONE LAID. CEREMONY AT EAST BRISBANE. “THE object of the Grammar School is the training of character on the foundation of the Christian faith. That work Is doubly hard without a school chapel. This chapel will be the fortress of the boys’ religion, and the sanctuary of their spiritual life.” — The Headmaster (Rev W.P.F. Morris). AN interesting ceremony which is likely to be of historical importance from an Read more…