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Armistice Day / Peace Parade, 1918
Object type:Image
- Description
Typed on damaged piece of paper sellotaped to back: “Perhaps 1918 Peace Procession. Miss M. McKegg was the successful Carnival Queen (Later Mrs Easton). Mr Vickers dressed as John Bull.”
Children lead the Armistice Day Peace Parade, along Oxford Street and west down Queen Street in 1918. The photograph is takenacross the Oxford Street and Queen Street intersection looking west towards the Levin Hotel. There are flags across the intersection and hanging from buildings.
1 B&W photo print, mounted (composite)
Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”
Identification
- Date
- November 11, 1918