Entrance to Ballarat Avenue of Honour

Entrance to Ballarat Avenue of Honour 14 miles long. The Lucas' Girls tribute to Ballarat soldiers.

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.