ANZAC Day Origins

Nurse honour board

ARMY NURSING SERVICE. HONOUR BOARD UNVEILED. A spirit of deep devotion characterised the gathering held in St. Luke’s War Chapel on Monday, when the honour board erected by The Soldiers’ Church of England Help Society, in memory of those members of the Australian Army Nursing Service who have gone from Queensland to serve at the Front, was unveiled by the president of the society, Mrs. Le Fanu [ Mary (“Margery”) Annette Ingle Le Fanu, neé Dredge ]. Drawing the veil reverently from tbe face of Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

Recruiting at Rockhampton

ABOVE: Despite being subjected to relentless social, family and peer pressure to enlist in the First AIF during the darkest days of World War I – with stalemate on the Western Front and reams of casualty lists appearing in newspapers every day – perhaps some of these Central Queensland enlistees were persuaded to “do their bit” after hearing Canon Garland at the recruiting rally held in The School of Arts in Bolsover Street, Rockhampton, on the evening of Saturday, Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

ANZAC Day No.2

TO: Lieut. J.A. Collum [ John (“Jack”) Athelstan Collum* ], Army Service Corps, c/o. Rev. W.W. Williams, Vicarage, Midsomer Norton, England. Box 47, Brisbane. 24th April 1917. “My dear Mr. Collum, “Your lengthy letter received and is of great interest to me. “I do not quite know what to do with the information you gave me as we are so far away, we could not take any action, but I will watch. “I am so sorry to Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

ANZAC Day No.2

ANZAC DAY, FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT. CHURCH SERVICES IN CITY. SERVICES will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow [ 25 April 1917 ] as follows:— Church of England, St. John’s Cathedral, Ann-street; Roman Catholic, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Elizabeth-street; Presbyterian, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Creek-street; Methodist, Albert-street Methodist Church; “other denominations”, Wharf-street Congregational Church. Luncheon will be provided after the service in the above churches. Service also will be held in the Hebrew Synagogue, Margaret-street, at 11 a.m. As it Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

Our Soldier Boys

  OUR SOLDIER BOYS. ‘Nothing is too good for our Soldiers.’ THE taking of the Referendum has been the great event since I last wrote, and I cannot forbear one word on the result. I feel disappointed and ashamed that as a people we failed to rise to the call for sacrifice as a whole people, and decided that we should still continue to accept individual sacrifice. To me the whole position has been brought about Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

Recruiting Committee sparks fly

RECRUITING COMMITTEE. CONSCRIPTION ADVOCATED. CANON AND GENERAL. GARLAND: STRIKES ANOTHER SNAG. WOMEN’S POSITION IF CONSCRIPTION ADOPTED. AT a well-attended meeting of the Queensland Recruiting Committee at Preston House last evening [ 7 September 1916 ] , Mr. A.J. Thynne, M.L.C., [ Andrew Joseph Thynne ] presiding, a report was submitted in which details were given of the work done since the last general meeting in March. Lengthy reference was made in the report to the Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago