Canon Garland Memorial - Anzac Day Origins
Canon Garland Memorial.The Canon Garland Memorial – Anzac Day Origins was officially unveiled and dedicated on 22 April 2016 by the-then Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC QC, and blessed by the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, the Most Reverend Dr Phillip Aspinall AO, at a ceremony witnessed by some 150 invited guests and media.
The monument, designed by the not-for-profit, community-based, volunteer-run Canon Garland Memorial Society Incorporated, consists of a wall constructed of Brisbane tuff and bears three large bronze plaques, lauding the work of Queenslanders - especially that of First AIF Chaplain LTCOL, the Reverend Canon David John Garland OBE VD - responsible for originating the day of solemn remembrance of The Fallen of the Great War (ANZAC Day) on 25 April 1916.
As foundation organising secretary of the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland, Canon Garland was regarded in his day as the "Architect of ANZAC Day," having designed the format for civic observance the includes The Ode, Minute's Silence, sounding of The Last Post, playing of the national anthem, an address and carriage of three resolutions. With his tireless devotion to publicising and fostering the adoption of this Order of Service throughout the nation and to New Zealand and the United Kingdom from 1916, Canon Garland helped ensure ANZAC Day continues to hold a special place of national respect and reverence for the service, sacrifice and devotion to duty of all defence personnel, in times of war and as peacekeepers.
At the end of ceremony, Canon Garland Memorial - ANZAC Day Origins was officially accepted into the care of Brisbane City Council by a representative of the the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Councillor Graham Quirk.
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