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Official recruiting team during a Queensland First World War recruiting rally

Photographer unknown1915

State Library of Queensland

State Library of Queensland
South Brisbane, Australia

Recruiting officers, railway staff and Anglican army chaplain Canon David John Garland, on the railway station of a Queensland town. A poster behind the group shows a wounded soldier with message: 'An appeal from the Dardanelles.' As honorary secretary of the Queensland Recruiting Committee, Garland was instrumental in organising a number of recruiting trains to travel throughout the state, rallying young men to enlist.

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