Honour Roll WW1 - Baptist Church, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
S 27° 27.889 E 153° 01.484
56J E 502443 N 6962079
Inside the City Tabernacle Baptist Church is a tablet, with the names for those who died in World War One.
Waymark Code: WM10KDD
Location: Queensland, Australia
Date Posted: 05/21/2019
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The shield-shaped, cream-coloured marble tablet is on the right-hand side when looking back to the entrance from inside. It is inset to the acoustic tiles on the back wall, behind the long wooden bench pews. The tablet reads:
In Honoured Memory of the Men of this Church
[Crossed British and Australian flags]
Killed In Action during The Great War 1914-1919
In Gallipoli
ANZACS Robert H. Lind and Joseph D. Street
In France
Loudon B. McNeil George Bremner
H. Gilmore Wilson William N. Smith
Ernest R. Smith (M.M) Rev. R. Lauchlan
Lieut. W.J.F. Cooksley Corpl. W.P. Simmonds
Henry Hackett
______
[WW2 (two names)]
These all Died in Faith
AIF
"It was officially unveiled at a Memorial (Peace) Service held on Sunday 21 September 1919. At the unveiling ceremony it had a prominent place in front of the pulpit before later being moved to its present permanent position. The names of the two men who gave their lives in World War II were added to the tablet after that war.
"In conjunction with the unveiling, a letter was sent by the City Tabernacle Secretary, John Keith, to Mrs Lauchlan in Scotland, mother of one of the servicemen who was killed, and presumably to the parents of the other servicemen whose lives were cut short, as follows:
'Dear Mrs Lauchlan,
'As you have more than likely been made aware of our intention to erect a tablet in honoured memory of those who paid the supreme sacrifice during the great war on our behalf, I have now pleasure in informing you that the desire has been accomplished and on 21st of last month we had a Peace service. The tablet was placed in the forefront of the Church surrounded by beautiful floral wreaths worthy of the loved ones we wished to honor. I enclose a small photo showing the tablet, but of course it gives only a faint idea of the efforts of loving hearts and hands to make the surroundings of the best and helpful to a reverent feeling. Our Pastor Rev W.G. Pope conducted both services preaching in the morning from Daniel chapter 3, verses 17 and 18
'And in the evening Hebrew chapter 11 verse 13.
'At each service all of the soldiers present stood up while Mr Pope read the names of the fallen ones, then the congregation stood while the Last Post was being sounded and the organist closed with the funeral march of Beethoven in the morning and Chopin in the evening...'"
[From: PDF document: For God, King and Country, 100 year Memorial]
Access: Street-parking is quite limited, and you have to pay at the appropriate meter. The Church was open from 9am on the Sunday.
Visited: 0921, Sunday, 19 May, 2019