ANZAC Day Origins

Image of the Enoggera training camp chapel in 1915.
The Garland Columns

Our Soldier Boys

ABOVE: This photo illustrated the column penned by Canon Garland (transcribed below) which appeared in the 1 September 1915 issue of the Church of England (Anglican) monthly newspaper, “The Church Chronicle” (page 176). The caption read: “Marquee first erected at Enoggera Main Camp, now transferred to and re-erected at Fraser’s Paddock”. For Church and Empire. ‘Nothing is too good for our Soldiers.’ The last month has seen great developments. We now have marquees erected at Fraser’s Paddock Camp, Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago
Foundations of ANZAC Day

For The Fallen

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN. SOLEMN CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST. SERVICE IN ST. JOHN’S CATHEDRAL. SINCE St John’s Cathedral has been erected there has perhaps been no other occasion on which so solemn a service has taken place within its walls, or one which will be so much appreciated at the present time, as that held yesterday morning [ 10 June 1915 ]. The object was the solemn commemoration before God of those who had laid down their lives for their friends. The Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago
'Nothing is Too Good for Our Soldiers.'

Into Enoggera camp

CANON GARLAND.  CHAPLAIN IN QUEENSLAND TRAINING CAMP.   FEELING that it is not desirable, in the interests of Imperial unity, to continue at the present time the agitation for Bible in schools, Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] has, at the request of the Archbishop of Brisbane [ St Clair George Alfred Donaldson ], accepted the position of resident Chaplain in the training camp for the Queensland Expeditionary Force. “The Brisbane Courier”, in commenting on Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago
Foundations of ANZAC Day

Abstinence pledge

ABOVE: Some of the estimated 3,000 troops – including men from the Queensland-raised 26th Infantry Battalion, 11th Australian Light Horse regiment and other elements of the 7th Infantry Brigade – paraded through the streets of inner Brisbane on Saturday morning, 29 May 1915. The following Monday evening more than 700 Brisbane citizens pledged to abstain from drinking alcohol for the duration of the war, to show solidarity with His Majesty King George V. These photos appeared on page 7 of “The Brisbane Courier” Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago
At the Front

More recruits from the Bush

SERMON BY CANON GARLAND. CANON Garland [ David John Garland ] preaching in Christ Church, Milton, last night [ 23 May 1915 ], said he had learned from headquarters that the number of applications for enlistment from the Brisbane area had been 200 to 10 a.m. on Saturday [ 22 May 1915 ]. This was less than the previous week. He found from visiting the camps and asking the soldiers from what part of the Read more…

By The Garland Collection, ago