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Consolidating the Tradition

A collection of 65 issues

ANZAC Day No.8

Arrangements for marking ANZAC Day in Brisbane, 1923 AT a meeting of the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee this week Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] reported that the joint hon. secretaries had arranged for the publication of extracts from “The King’s Pilgrimage” in book form, and mentioned the assistance which

ANZAC Day No.7

South Brisbane Meeting. THE South Brisbane City Hall was crowded on Tuesday [ 25 April 1922 ] and an impressive and stirring meeting was held. The Mayor of South Brisbane, (Ald. A. Faulkner) [ Alfred Faulkner ] presided. On each side of the stage was hung a large wreath, and much bunting was draped

ANZAC Day address

THE REV. CANON GARLAND, V.D. Hon. Secretary. Anzac Day Commemoration. “Their name liveth for evermore.” (Ecclesiasticus, chapter 44, verse 14). IN each of the battlefield cemeteries in which lie at rest the bodies of those Soldiers of the Empire who laid down their lives for us there is erected

ANZAC Day Bill

ANZAC DAY BILL, 1921. Second Reading QUEENSLAND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The SECRETARY FOR MINES [ Alfred James Jones ] : “This is a Bill to constitute Anzac Day a national holiday. The Bill is really so self-explanatory that it does not need me to make a second reading speech on it. “Clause 2 reads

The Birdwood Visit

ABOVE: This photo was taken of members of the Brisbane official reception party for General Birdwood (including the Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman James Francis Maxwell, at the centre of shot, in mayoral robes). From the State Library of Queensland Collection. Negative number: 142549.Parliamentary Banquet. Talk About Neutrality. Fine Tribute

Home from Palestine

CANON GARLAND RETURNS. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL Chaplain D.J. Garland, V.D., [ David John Garland ] returned to Brisbane last night [ 10 September 1919 ] after nearly two years’ service with the A.I.F. in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. He was looking very well. In course of conversation, he paid tribute to the

ANZAC Day at Cairo

ANZAC Day in Cairo. AUSTRALIANS in Cairo were provided an opportunity of observing ANZAC Day much to their satisfaction.A number of soldiers came down the line and were given board and lodging, free of cost, at the Australian Soldiers’ Club for three days. On ANZAC morning [ 25 April 1919

Memorials to The Fallen

ECHOES OF THE WORLD AT WAR LEST WE FORGET THE EMPIRES HONOURED DEAD Memorials to the Fallen WORK OF THE IMPERIAL COMMISSION ON behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission, of which he is a member, Mr. Rudyard Kipling has supplied an account of its effort to secure a fitting

ANZAC Day No.4

ABOVE: This photograph of Lieutenant (as he was then) Eustace Royston Baum Pike appeared in “The Queenslander Pictorial” supplement of “The Queenslander” on 23 January 1915. When Chaplain Lieutenant-Colonel Garland volunteered for military chaplaincy duties with the troops fighting on the Middle Eastern Front in 1918, Captain Pike assumed the

ANZAC Day No.3

ANZAC DAY. YESTERDAY’S COMMEMORATION. MILITARY PARADE IN THE CITY. IN addition to the Anzac memorial services, reported in “The Daily Standard” yesterday [ 25 April 1918 ], there were other notable Church gatherings in Brisbane. A united memorial service was held in the City Tabernacle, at which the president of the