A collection of excerpts from contemporary reportage of the journey of Anzac Day since January 1916, through to the present day.
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 do with the Read more…
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”, Wharf-street Congregational Church. Read more…
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 Read more…
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 of Read more…
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 Brisbane’s “The Telegraph” newspaper of 26 November 1927. Read more…
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 ] Lieutenant-Colonel Read more…