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THE JOURNEY

A collection of 119 issues

Recruiting at Rockhampton

ABOVE: Despite being subjected to relentless social, family and peer pressure to enlist in the First AIF during the darkest days of World War I – with stalemate on the Western Front and reams of casualty lists appearing in newspapers every day – perhaps some of these Central Queensland enlistees were persuaded

ANZAC Day No.2

TO: Lieut. J.A. Collum [ John (“Jack”) Athelstan Collum* ], Army Service Corps, c/o. Rev. W.W. Williams, Vicarage, Midsomer Norton, England.Box 47, Brisbane.24th April 1917. “My dear Mr. Collum, “Your lengthy letter received and is of great interest to me. “I do not quite know what to

ANZAC Day No.2

ANZAC DAY, FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT. CHURCH SERVICES IN CITY. SERVICES will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow [ 25 April 1917 ] as follows:— Church of England, St. John’s Cathedral, Ann-street; Roman Catholic, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Elizabeth-street; Presbyterian, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Creek-street; Methodist, Albert-street Methodist Church; “other denominations”

Recruiting Committee sparks fly

RECRUITING COMMITTEE. CONSCRIPTION ADVOCATED. CANON AND GENERAL. GARLAND: STRIKES ANOTHER SNAG. WOMEN'S POSITION IF CONSCRIPTION ADOPTED. AT a well-attended meeting of the Queensland Recruiting Committee at Preston House last evening [ 7 September 1916 ] , Mr. A.J. Thynne, M.L.C., [ Andrew Joseph Thynne ] presiding, a report was submitted

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

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

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

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

ANZAC Day No.1

ANZAC COMMEMORATION DAY. A MEETING of the ANZAC commemoration executive* was held in the Premier’s office on Monday evening last [ 6 March 1916 ].Mr. W. Lennon [ William Lennon ] was in the chair, there being also present:– * Archbishop Donaldson [ St Clair George Alfred Donaldson ] * Archbishop Duhig [ James Vincent Duhig ] * Brigadier-General

ANZAC Day planning

ANZAC DAY. COMMEMORATION, 25 APRIL 1916. IT will be remembered that on 10 January 1916, a public meeting was held in Brisbane, presided over by the Mayor of Brisbane (Alderman Down) [ George Down ], and addressed by his Excellency the Governor (Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams), the State Premier (Hon. T.J.