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Foundations of ANZAC Day

A collection of 46 issues

Cross and Stone unveiled

TOOWONG MEMORIAL. GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S EULOGY UNVEILING CEREMONY THE spirit animating the large concourse of people in the Toowong Cemetery yesterday morning [ 25 April 1924 ] on the occasion of the unveiling of The Cross of Sacrifice and The Stone of Remembrance was a pathetic blending of sorrow and pride. There were

Anzac Day editorial, 1924

“LEST WE FORGET.” KIPLING’S magic sentence fitly expresses the Australian feeling behind the continued observance of Anzac Day. The public memory is said to be short, and short it is on most matters, but not where the heart is touched so deeply as it is by the story of

ANZAC Day No. 9

FOR LIFE AND LIBERTY. “ALL THAT THEY HAD THEY GAVE.” GLORIOUS MEMORIES OF ANZAC. NINE years have flown since a comparatively small body of the soldier sons of Australia and New Zealand stirred the world and fired the imagination of friend and foe alike by a deed of heroism unparalleled

Remembrance editorial

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 of those

Cross of Sacrifice unveiling plans

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 ] has

ANZAC Day No. 8

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 ] (one

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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 night [ 25

ANZAC Day Bill

ANZAC DAY BILL. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL-IN-COMMITTEE 18 October 1921. (The Hon. L. McDonald [ Lewis McDonald ], Acting Chairman, in the chair.) Clause 1 – “Short title” – put and passed. On clause 2 – “Anzac Day to be a national holiday”. Hon. A.G.C. HAWTHORN [ Arthur George Clarence Hawthorn ] : “There was some suggestion when

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

Welcome home

CANON GARLAND WELCOMED. MR. HUGHES AND A WHITE AUSTRALIA. HIGH TRIBUTES TO HIS WORK. THE welcome home extended to Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] in the Albert Hall last night [ 16 September 1919 ] by members of the Soldiers’ Church of England Help Society was largely attended. The hall was tastefully