Anzac Day in Queensland
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Anzac Day is a day of remembrance in Queensland, Australia. It is a public holiday held on 25 April each year. The date is significant as the Australian and New Zealand troops first landed at Gallipoli in World War I on 25 April 1915.
Anzac Day parade on Dee Street, Mount Morgan, 25 April 1916
First Anzac Day parade in Brisbane, 25 April 1916
Anzac Day ceremony, Brisbane Synagogue, 1930
Wreath laying ceremony on Anzac Day at the Manly War Memorial, Brisbane, 1922
Queensland Recruiting Committee
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The Queensland Recruiting Committee was a volunteer organisation in Queensland, Australia, which urged Queensland men to enlist for military service during World War I. It operated from May 1915 to December 1916, when it was replaced by an Australian Government recruitment organisation, the Queensland State Recruiting Committee.
Recruiting poster, 1915
"An appeal from the Dardanelles: Will they never come?" poster widely distributed in Queensland
Cover page of the booklet "For Queensland's Honour: Queensland Expects that Every Man will Do His Duty", 1916
Decorated recruiting train stopped Emerald