All Saints Chapel (F31)—Enoggera Barracks School of Musketry

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Located at Gallipoli Barracks, the All Saints Chapel (F31) represents a significant intersection between religious chaplaincy and professional military history in Brisbane. Situated within the Enoggera Barracks School of Musketry, the site embodies the tension between educare (technical training in musketry) and the humanistic inquiry fostered by the chaplaincy, which provides a framework for the “craftsmanship of the reflexive insider” within an institutional structure. Its active significance lies in its role as a counter-narrative to the “secular Anzac myth,” serving as an overdue reminder that religion and spiritual guidance have played a vital role in Australia’s military heritage. As a physical architecture realized “in rebus” (in the thing itself), the chapel serves as a diagnostic tool to resist technocratic formalization and “historical forgetfulness,” restoring a space for personal judgment and Human Authorship amidst the rigid, machine-based routines of contemporary military training.