Councillor James Mackay, with David Ratcliff, and Peter Collins.
8/10/2019 Brisbane City Council’s Cr James Mackay organized a ceremonial tree-planting of a tallowwood sapling in memory of the “Architect of ANZAC Day”, the Reverend Canon David Garland, in Toowong’s Anzac Park.
The tree was blessed by the Reverend Bill Colbrahams, incumbent of St Barnabas Anglican Church Red Hill Brisbane Australia, using the Golden Cross of the Knighthood of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Canon Garland’s “Pectoral Cross”) and watered in with a modicum of Holy Water.
The brief ceremony was conducted in the presence of Canon Garland’s Grandnephew, David Ratcliff, and Great Grandniece, Elizabeth Binks, from Hexham, Northumbria; as well as CDR Darryl Neild OAM (RAN, Retd.), representing the Naval Association of Australia Sandgate Sub-Section and the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland; Asia Minor Greek Historical Society President, Marina Campbell; World Expo 88 Regional Trail doyen, Peter Rasey; and Canon Garland Memorial convenor, Peter Collins.
Councillor James Mackay receives a briefing on the Canon Garland Pectoral Cross.
Refer https://garlandmemorial.com/ for background material.
Member for Ryan on importance of Anzac Day
Mrs. JANE PRENTICE (Ryan) ( 12:25): “I commend the Member for Higgins for bringing this motion forward. I appreciate the opportunity to speak in support of it.
“Anzac Day is very important to my family in so many ways. I am the mother of a serving soldier in the Australian Army; the daughter of a fighter pilot from World War II and subsequently a prisoner of war; and the great granddaughter of Sir George Pearce [ George Foster Pearce ], Australia’s longest-serving defence minister.
“It was also T.J. Ryan [ Thomas Joseph Ryan ], Premier of Queensland and chairman of the first Anzac Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland, after whom my seat of Ryan was named.
“Also of interest is that Canon David Garland [ David John Garland ], ‘the architect of Anzac Day’ as he is known, is buried in the Toowong Cemetery along with 300 soldiers from the First World War.
“Anzac Day has been observed each year since the memorable landing on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.
“In no way does the commemoration of Anzac Day glorify war. Rather, it recognises the sacrifice that our servicemen and servicewomen have made.
“It is in this tradition that, as we stand for a minute’s silence each year, we remember that we are standing in the presence of the dead and their living friends and relatives.
“From 1914 to 1918, Australia was a country of a mere four million people. Yet, 416,000 enlisted for service, representing 38.7 per cent of the total male population aged between 18 and 44.
“Of those, 57,705 were Queenslanders. By the end of the war, nearly 59,000 of our men were dead, 166,811 wounded and 4,000 were missing or prisoners of war.
“At almost 65 percent, the Australian casualty rate was the highest of the war. Of the 63 Victoria Crosses that were awarded, five were from Queensland.
“The ANZACs helped to define us as a people and as a nation.
“They were ordinary Australians who performed extraordinary deeds and who were drawn from the smallest
“Recently I attended the opening of the Kenmore-Moggill RSL Sub-Branch where I had the opportunity to discuss with Kenmore State High School’s deputy principal, Mr Andrew Blight, the research project being undertaken by the school, in conjunction with the RSL.
“Students are tasked with researching a local soldier killed in action during the First World War.
“This creates the opportunity for the next generation to understand and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that we may live in freedom.
“I wish to close by paraphrasing the sermon of the secretary of the original Anzac committee at St John’s Cathedral, marking Anzac Day 1924. Quoting from John 15:13, he said:
‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends’.
“Canon Garland went on to say that there was no room for anything other than a solemn observance of Anzac Day and to expand on his often expressed belief that Anzac Day was the All Souls’ Day of Australia and that it was therefore inappropriate to wear vestments or play joyous music of triumph but rather be penitent and filled with sorry for a world which caused the sacrifice of bright young lives, our dearest and our best.
“Lest we forget.”
– an extract from the House of Representatives “Hansard” from 12:25pm on Monday, 23 June 2014 (page 7042).
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