ABOVE: Australian troops marching across a bridge on their way to Fremantle to embark for the Boer War in South Africa. This was a scene very familiar to the newly-ordained Canon David John Garland, a military chaplain to the West Read more…
ABOVE: Western Australia’s volunteers marching along High Street, Fremantle, on 2 February 1900 on their way to board the transport, “Surrey”, waiting at the Fremantle docks. A crowd of some 30,000 people watched this procession of 125 men, aged between 20 and 34 Read more…
ABOVE: Canon Garland as he looked in the late 1890s…a cleric who was tasked with travelling interminable miles, criss-crossing the far-flung reaches of the Diocese of Perth as a missioner and organiser of fledgling Church of England parishes on behalf of the Archbishop. Read more…
THE ANGLICAN SYNOD. FIRST DAY – MONDAY. At the opening of the [ Church of England Diocese of Perth ] Synod, the Bishop [ Henry Hutton Parry ] delivered the following address: “MY BRETHREN OF THE CLERGY AND THE LAITY,– Read more…