ANZAC Day Origins

ANZAC DAY, 1940 How It Should Be Observed “THE ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee has decided to again ask the churches, local ANZAC Day committees, sub-branches of the Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Imperial League, shire councils, branches of the Country Women’s Association, and all other interested bodies to arrange for the observance of ANZAC Day on the same lines as in previous years, this being the dawn service where possible, morning services in cemeteries and in churches, and service in the principal churches at 11 a.m., to Read more…

Funeral of the Late Canon Garland Canon Garland ‘Essentially A Fighter’, says Archbishop Wand “OF his character I would say that essentially he was a fighter. He was not one of those people who found an easy path through life. “To him the whole world was a battle, a great struggle between right and wrong, and in that warfare there was no place for hesitancy or diffidence. “He had a mind very unlike that of a scholar, Read more…

‘GUIDE, PHILOSOPHER AND FRIEND’ Late Canon Garland   THERE are hundreds of people from overseas who will acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the late Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] as the man who extended them a helping hand when they set foot on Queensland. Not only did he put them at ease in the friendship of fellow immigrants or relatives, but he frequently made a personal matter of their progress and was guide, philosopher and friend in their Read more…

‘We needed a better kindness to the dead’