On Tuesday 10 December The Honourable Glen Elmes MP, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs and Minister assisting the Premier and The Honourable Ian Walker MP, Minister for Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts attended the State Library of Queensland to jointly announce $7.4 million of funding for Q ANZAC 100: … Read more
Listen to guest panelists Lieutenant-General Mark Evans (retired) AO, DSC, Chair of the Queensland Advisory Committee for the Commemoration of the ANZAC Centenary (2014-2018), and Kate Walton, PhD candidate at The University of Queensland specialising in Australian Prisoners of War in Turkey, in conversation with Dr Kate Evans as they discuss the impact of World … Read more
With the end of World War One there was a general need to resettle returned servicemen and ensure that they were given adequate support. One of the ways in which this was achieved was through the scheme of soldier settlement and these soldier settlements were established in many different places. In the case of Stanthorpe … Read more
“The Brisbane girl of war time should make a splendid woman, for she is spending her youth in a heroic and self-sacrificing age. The silken tassel of her girlhood has been torn and all the treasure of her youth thrown into the arena of war service.” One often forgets that war is fought not only … Read more
While undertaking research into Aboriginal soldiers, I discovered the above article from Reveille. It is one of several sources that identify Aboriginal stockmen being recruited into the Australian Light Horse, particularly the 11th Light Horse Regiment. This snippet from the AWM website identifies some of the Aboriginal men sent as part of the 20th Reinforcements … Read more
In a letter saved for almost 100 years, Elinor White (Nell) informs one of her sisters that brother Maurice George Delpratt had been reported missing in action. It is as touching and heart wrenching to read today as it must have been when it was first received in 1915. State Library is digitising WWI collections, letters, post … Read more
The “demonstration” held, in honour of France, at Exhibition Hall in Brisbane (on the corner of Gregory Terrace and Bowen Bridge Road) on the evening of July14, 1917, was the culmination of a day of celebrations paying tribute to France’s “magnificent” sacrifice in resisting “the heel of the Prussian tyrant” on behalf of the Allies … Read more
Hello my name is Reeghan Finlay and I work with the Yugambeh Museum, Language Heritage and Research Centre. I have been awarded an Indigenous Languages Research Fellowship at the State Library of Queensland. One of the projects that I’ve wanted to research is based on Gunggari soldiers for the marking of 100 years since World … Read more
This great shot comes from an album of recruiting rally photographs. Note the large poster in the background. The photographer is unknown, as are the names of the subjects, so if you recognize anyone please contact State Library of Queensland. Joan Bruce – Queensland Literature Coordinator, State Library of Queensland
2014 marks not only the centenary of the outbreak of WW1 but also the 150th anniversary of the Queensland Police Service. The John Oxley Library holds a copy of a book Their glory shall not be blotted out by former Queensland police officer Paul Ruge detailing the service history of thirty Queensland police constables who … Read more