Gala Day 1920

Don Patterson has once again provided an iconic photograph of Geelong for use with his November puzzle. Taken in 1920 it shows the Gala Day Parade as it passes by Bright & Hitchcock’s store on Ryrie Street. Its centrepiece is the phalanx of school girls in white dresses with the Red Cross at its middle. The impact of the Great War had been immense and the symbolism of this display would have been obvious to everyone participating or watching.

It also fits in most appropriately with our November speaker’s topic, the work of the Red Cross in Geelong during the Great War.