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.
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 Read more…
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 Egypt, Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 room was Read more…
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, Brisbane. The boat was Read more…