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Ballarat Arch of Victory and poppies
City of Ballarat
National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
East Melbourne, Australia
The Arch of Victory memorial in Ballarat was funded by the ‘Lucas girls’, a group of 500 women employed by E. Lucas & Co., and Mrs W. D. Thompson. They raised £2600 for the Arch of Victory, to provide an entrance to the Ballarat Avenue of Honour.
The Arch was designed by H.H. Smith, Head of the Art School at the School of Mines Ballarat, and was erected in 1920, crowned by the rising sun symbol of the Australian Commonwealth Military forces.
The Arch of Victory and Ballarat Avenue of Honour is on the Victorian State Heritage Register.
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- Title: Ballarat Arch of Victory and poppies
- Creator: City of Ballarat
- Location: Ballarat, Victoria
- Location Created: Ballarat, Victoria
- Type: Photograph
- External Link: Victorian Heritage Database
- Common Name: Elm
- Botanical Name: Ulmus sp.
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