Arch of Victory Centenary
How ironic that the world was reeling from the effects of the global Spanish flu pandemic when his Royal Highness Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, arrived in Ballarat to officially open Ballarat’s Arch of Victory on 2 June 1920.
One hundred years later, and a new pandemic known as COVID-19 will prevent a physical audience from marking the Arch centenary. However, it won’t prevent Ballarat from acknowledging the milestone of one of the City’...