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Adelaide came to a standstill for Sir Ross’ funeral on 15 June.
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.
The South African War Memorial is erected near the entrance to Government House, and becomes the focus of Remembrance services until the construction of the National War Memorial at Kintore Avenue in the 1930s
