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'Nothing is too good for our Soldiers.'

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Our Soldier Boys

OUR SOLDIER BOYS. ‘Nothing is too goodfor 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 man in civilian

Egyptian rebellion incidents

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 and carried on

Home from Palestine

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

Memorials to The Fallen

ECHOES OF THE WORLD AT WAR LEST WE FORGET THE EMPIRES HONOURED DEAD Memorials to the Fallen WORK OF THE IMPERIAL COMMISSION ON behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission, of which he is a member, Mr. Rudyard Kipling has supplied an account of its effort to secure a fitting

Helping the troops

CHURCH WORK FOR SOLDIERS. EGYPT, PALESTINE, AND SYRIA. SOLDIERS’ CHURCH OF ENGLAND HELP SOCIETY. THE [ Soldiers’ ] Church of England Help Society has received a report from their representative abroad (Colonel the Rev. Canon D.J. Garland, V.D.) [ David John Garland ] containing a report of the Society’s work in

July in Jerusalem

THE NEW JERUSALEM. CANON Garland [ David John Garland ] writes from Jerusalem, in respect to the Church of England Australian Fund for Soldiers, on July 26:— “In strolling through the old city of Jerusalem I was struck by the improvement and cleanliness, showing how our advent is making itself felt. “The

Work of the chaplains

WORK OF THE CHAPLAINS. On the Palestine Front. THE following letter from the Rev. Maitland Woods (well known in Brisbane) [ William Maitland Woods ] recently appeared in the Sydney “Church Standard”:– “I wonder if the church people of Australia know what Chaplain Canon Garland [ David John Garland ] is doing for our

Our Soldier Boys

ABOVE: The “Writing and Reading Room” inside The Anzac Club, set up inside St Luke’s Church, Charlotte Street, in inner-city Brisbane by Canon Garland and The Soldiers’ Church of England Help Society in 1915. When the third annual general meeting of the Society was held in May 1918, this

Riverboat on the Nile

ABOVE: A fleet of house-boats tied up along a Nile River landing at Cairo in about 1915. In July 1918 Canon Garland sought to buy one of these vessels with money raised through the “Lavender Day Appeal" by The Anzac Club, located inside St Luke’s Church, Charlotte Street,

Soldiers' Help Society

SOLDIERS’ HELP SOCIETY. THE regular meeting of the Soldiers’ Church of England Help Society was held in The ANZAC Club on Tuesday afternoon [ 12 March 1918 ]. Mrs. W.H. Campbell [ Mary Simmonds Campbell, neé Powell ] presided, and Bishop Le Fanu (acting director) [ Henry Frewen Le Fanu ] and Lady Morgan [ Alice