A collection of excerpts from contemporary reportage of the journey of Anzac Day since January 1916, through to the present day.
Chapel Dedicated. KITCHENER MEMORIAL. Parish Church at Maleny. SUNDAY, 6 September [ 1931 ], marked a new era in the life of the Church of England community in Maleny. A new church has been built and on Sunday was dedicated under the name of “St. George” although the building will more usually be known as the “Kitchener Memorial Read more…
AT TOOWONG Ceremony at Cross of Sacrifice. PAYING eleven tributes of flowers, the newly-cleaned Cross of Sacrifice and Stone of Remembrance in the Toowong Cemetery had an outer frame of reverent men, women and children who had come to honour The Fallen at a memorial service conducted by Canon D.J. Read more…
SHOULD HELP. SPIRIT OF ANZAC, OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES. IN the shadow of the trees by The Stone of Remembrance many hundreds gathered at Toowong cemetery on Saturday morning [ 25 April 1931 ] for the impressive service, conducted by Canon D.J. Garland [ David John Garland ], assisted by Rev. N. Bertram Read more…
ABOVE: Woolloongabba’s Holy Trinity Church as it looked in October 1930. The church sign (since removed) seen in the mid-left foreground of this photograph is on the approximate spot where the proposed Canon Garland Anzac Origins memorial will be erected in 2016. New Church opened. Dedication of Holy Trinity. Impressive Service. “I declare this Read more…
TRIBUTE TO SERVICE. National Memorial. UNVEILING OF TABLET. ANZAC Square which has been the scene of much industry in recent weeks became the scene of more solemnity on Saturday [ 24 May 1930 ] when the Governor (Sir John Goodwin) [ Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin ] unveiled the inscription tablet on the Read more…
ABOVE: An artist’s impression of how civic authorities,The Queensland National Anzac Memorial Committee, the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia (Queensland Branch) and the Queensland Anzac Day Commemoration Committee envisaged Brisbane’s future “National Anzac War Memorial” (between inner-city Adelaide and Ann Streets) was likely to look. This drawing appeared in Read more…