ANZAC Day Origins

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 to Queenslanders. GENERAL Sir William Birdwood was entertained at a State banquet at Parliament House last night. The dining room was resplendent with bunting and Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

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 House”, behind the sand dunes at Coolangatta’s Rainbow Bay, was a respite haven in the safe and caring hands of volunteers of the Garland-led The Soldiers’ Church of England Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

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 confirmed the Muslim worshipping community would remain as “doorkeepers” of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but that the Greek Orthodox Church was to resume its Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

Our Soldier Boys

OUR SOLDIER BOYS. ‘Nothing is too good for 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 clothes wearing a returned soldiers’ badge; he had one boot and sock off, was flourishing a spare pair of trousers in his Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

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 decorated with flags, ferns, and flowers, and the proceedings were characterised by great enthusiasm. The guests were received by Lady Morgan (patroness) [ Alice Augusta Morgan, Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

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 a conversation while attending to other duties. He had just held a service in The Anzac Club war chapel, which was nearly Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago