ANZAC Day Origins

Home from Palestine

CANON GARLAND RETURNS. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL Chaplain D.J. Garland, V.D., [ David John Garland ] returned to Brisbane last night [ 10 September 1919 ] after nearly two years’ service with the A.I.F. in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. He was looking very well. In course of conversation, he paid tribute to the great work accomplished by the Australian Light Horse, and remarked that the numbers engaged on the west Front and the colossal operations there carried out Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

ANZAC Day at Cairo

ANZAC Day in Cairo. AUSTRALIANS in Cairo were provided an opportunity of observing ANZAC Day much to their satisfaction. A number of soldiers came down the line and were given board and lodging, free of cost, at the Australian Soldiers’ Club for three days. On ANZAC morning [ 25 April 1919 ], a memorial Eucharist was celebrated at All Saints’ Church, the parish church for English people, which was kindly placed at the disposal of Australians Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

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 permanent memorial of the sacrifices made by the Sons of the Empire in every field of war. In the first days of the war organisations Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

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 Egypt,  Palestine, and Syria for the six months ended March 1 [ 1919 ] last. The report opens with a fine tribute to the troops in this area Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

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 honorary secretaryship of the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland, and after the war was joint honorary secretary with Canon Garland. Leicestershire-born Pike, then aged 30 and employed Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

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 long before he invited me, as a layman, to help him occasionally in taking services in parts of the huge area under his jurisdiction, some of which had practically little Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago