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The annual Violet Day ceremony was held at Anzac Arch for the first time.
Statue officially unveiled by Governor George Le Hunte on the Prince of Wales’ birthday.
The Adelaide ceremony in 1917 was held on 29 June. There was a ceremony and button day, and a volume of poems titled ‘Violet Verses’ was published.
