The columns penned by Canon David John Garland for the Church of England’s diocesan monthly magazine, “The Church Chronicle” from 1915 to after World War I.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND HELP SOCIETY. LADY Morgan [ Alice Augusta Morgan, neé Clinton ] and Mrs. W.H. Campbell [ Mary Simmonds Campbell, neé Powell ] (representing the [ Soldiers’ ] Church of England Help Society) were hostesses at morning tea at The ANZAC Club yesterday to welcome the members of Synod and their wives. Read more…
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 Read more…
ABOVE: This was, for a great number of Queensland’s First AIF returned soldiers, the first time they could smile again after the ravages of trench life in the Great War. Managed by a returned soldier with the additional supervision of a former Army Nursing Service Matron, “The Rest House”, behind the Read more…
OUR SOLDIER BOYS. ‘Nothing is too good for our Soldiers.’ I am writing with feelings of anger and sadness. I was coming this morning [ Wednesday, 15 October 1919 ] from Rosemount Hospital in a tram, when turning a corner in the city, I saw stepping off the pavement a Read more…
CHAPLAIN GARLAND. INCIDENTS OF EGYPTIAN REBELLION. WHEN a “Daily Mail” representative found Chaplain-Colonel Garland, V.D. [ David John Garland, Volunteer Detachment ], who returned to Brisbane on Tuesday [ 9 September 1919 ], after an absence of about two years in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, he was very busily engaged Read more…
CANON GARLAND RETURNS. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL Chaplain D.J. Garland, V.D., [ David John Garland ] returned to Brisbane last night [ 10 September 1919 ] after nearly two years’ service with the A.I.F. in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. He was looking very well. In course of conversation, he paid tribute to the Read more…