ANZAC Day Origins

Chaplain Davies honoured

ST. JAMES’ RECTOR. CHAPLAIN ON TROOPSHIP. HONOURED BY PARISHIONERS. LAST NIGHT’S PRESENTATIONS. FOR a considerable time efforts have been made to ensure that no troopship should leave Australian shores unaccompanied by Chaplains. Hitherto the practice of the authorities has been to provide salaried Chaplain on boats carrying large numbers of troops, but no provision has been made for the spiritual needs of men voyaging on transports carrying comparatively few. It was strongly felt in the Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

ANZAC Club opened

To: No. 20907, Gunner F.T. Baker [ Frederick Thomas Baker ], 34th Battery, 9th Field Artillery Brigade, 3rd Australian Division. Box 47, Brisbane. 19th July 1916. “My dear Fred, “I am very glad to have a letter from you, and to know you are having a good time at sea. “I wonder where you are now, and what is your destination. “I am sorry to have missed you when you were in Brisbane for your final leave, Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

Aboriginal recruit sworn in

THE CANON SPEAKS. THERE was a large gathering in front of the [ Brisbane General ] Post Office yesterday [ 24 May 1917 ], when many strong appeals were made for recruits. A feature of the proceedings was the swearing in of an Aboriginal recruit by Chaplain Garland [ David John Garland ], and a march past of a small body of mounted troops, including 15 dusky [ sic ] warriors who had offered their Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

New Zealand's first ANZAC Day

ABOVE: The New Zealand approach to setting aside the 25th day of April as a “sacred” and “close” industrial public holiday was described by the secretary of that country’s equivalent of the Anzac Day Commemoration Committee, as “treated as a holy day”. This article appeared on page 12 of Brisbane’s “The Telegraph” newspaper of 26 November 1927. This item was contributed by the former Government Printer of New Zealand from 1916 onwards, Marcus Marks of Wellington. His brother, Louis Samuel Marks, resided at New Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

Machinery of recruiting

QUEENSLAND RECRUITING COMMITTEE. THE CALL TO ARMS APPEAL. 140,000 SENT OUT; 113,000 REPLIES A MEETING of the general committee of the Queensland Recruiting Committee was held last Thursday evening [ 16 March 1916 ]. There were present: Colonel The Honourable A.J. Thynne, M.L.C. (chairman) [ Andrew Joseph Thynne ] Lieutenant-Colonel Moore [ Richard Albert Moore ] Chaplain Lieutenant-Colonel D.J. Garland [ David John Garland ] The Reverend Canon Micklem [ Philip Arthur Micklem ] Professor A.J. Gibson Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago

ANZAC Day, New Zealand

ABOVE: A soldier of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. This image appeared in “The Queenslander” (pictorial supplement to “The Queenslander”) of 13 July 1918 (page 27).   A DAY OF DAYS   Though the commemoration of Anzac Day is not a matter to be approached in any hasty or haphazard fashion, it is not easy to excuse the tone of irresolution and almost of timidity which pervaded the proceedings of the meeting of local body and Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago