ABOVE: The Christmas Eucharist Service at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was celebrated by Canon David Garland at the invitation of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Constantine Damianos, in December 1917. When General Allenby entered Jerusalem at the head of the victorious British Expeditionary Force he Read more…
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 decorated 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…
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 LATE CANON THOMAS JONES. A REMINISCENT TRIBUTE. (By D.J.G., with the A.I.F. abroad.)* My first acquaintance with the Venerable Thomas Jones was made in the year 1887, when he was Archdeacon of the Darling Downs and Rector of St James’s, Toowoomba. It was not long before he invited me, Read more…