THE ARCHITECT OF ANZAC DAY Chaplain Lieutenant- Colonel Canon David Garland Our History and the Christian Connection The catch cry of Canon David Garland was “nothing is too good for our soldier boys”. It...
ANZAC – BATTLE of BEERSHEBA Our History and the Christian Connection Lieutenant General Sir Harry Chauvel. The horses were restless, pawing the ground in the relentless heat. A shimmering haze hung over the desert,...
ANZAC – Gibraltar Our History and the Christian Connection Field-Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery ‘Hello, Monty, glad to see you.’ The governor of Gibraltar, Rusty Eastwood, held out his hand as the car door opened...
ANZAC – Egypt – ‘Banjo’ Paterson Our History and the Christian Connection Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson The line of horses struggled in the soft burning sand, their fetlocks sinking deep in the desert hills....
ANZAC – FROMELLES Our History and the Christian Connection Sergeant John Ridley “After passing over rough ground covered with the bodies of the dead and wounded, strewn with barbed wire and pocked by shellfire, the...
