A collection of excerpts from contemporary reportage of the journey of Anzac Day since January 1916, through to the present day.
REMEMBRANCE. THE most massive stone ever hewn from a Queensland quarry is being dedicated today [ 25 April 1924 ] to the memory of those who fell or died of wounds or sickness as our soldiers in the Great War. There is an ancestral touch about this memorial, a reminiscence Read more…
ANZAC DAY THE CROSS OF SACRIFICE. ADDRESSES IN SCHOOLS. THE joint honorary secretaries of the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Canon David J. Garland and Captain E.R.B. Pike) [ David John Garland and Eustace Royston Baum Pike ] have been advised that the Governor-General (Lord Forster)[ Sir Henry William Forster ] Read more…
ORIGINATOR OF ANZAC DAY. THE death of Mr. T.A. Ryan [ Thomas Augustine Ryan ], one of the most prominent figures in Brisbane commercial circles, and the city’s oldest auctioneer, occurred on Thursday week [ 27 December 1923 ] at his residence, Wienholt-street, Auchenflower. To Mr. Ryan is given the Read more…
ANZAC DAY. OBSERVANCE MORE GENERAL. PREMIERS’ CONFERENCE DECISION. THE seventh [ sic ] observance of Anzac Day had been better than on any previous occasion and the feeling of the people had been more intense while the method of celebration had become crystallised said Canon D.J. Garland [ David John Garland ] Read more…
HEROISM AND SACRIFICE. LOVE AND ENDURANCE. THE ANZAC IDEALS. TYPIFIED IN THE UNION JACK. “If the ideals for which these men fought and died so nobly are to be perpetuated,” said Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] in the course of a stirring address in the Exhibition Hall last Read more…
At the Churches ST. JOHN’S CATHEDRAL Thirteen hundred or more persons crowded into St. John’s Cathedral in the morning [ 25 April 1923 ] for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist in commemoration of those who fell in the Great War. Not only was every available seat in the sacred Read more…