Objects of Substance – OGA Honour Board

Ensuring that the names of all Grammar Women are commemorated on the board is an ongoing task. The eligibility for inclusion has never been documented, although the intention was most likely to record all of those who served in any military or related capacity, whether it was at home or overseas. In 2022, the board is nearing capacity. However, if more names of eligible past students who served in the two World Wars do come to light, they will be included on a board that was, in 2009, admitted to the Queensland War Memorial Register. This gift of the Honour Board by the OGA in 1949 affords the School the opportunity to acknowledge the duty and courage displayed by our women during these wars. It is only appropriate that the School recognises and commemorates them in the very room in which they once assembled and sang as schoolgirls. The question remains, how do we acknowledge Grammar Women who served in world conflicts since 1945 and into the future?

Ms Jenny Davis (Librarian — Special collections)

References:

Minutes of Annual General Meeting of the BGGSOGA, held on Friday 23 February 1945.

Brisbane Girls School Magazine Dec 1948, pp. 51 – 52.

Minutes of the meeting of the BGGSOGA, held at School on Wednesday 21 July, 1948 .

BGGSOGA Annual Report 2009 , 29 April 2010

https://www.ww2places.qld.gov.au/place?id=331 , Brisbane River Mine watching Post accessed on 11 April 2022.

Inglis, K. S. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape , Melbourne Uni Press, 2001

Rising champion of tennis. 5 September 1937, The Courier-Mail