Celebrating the Armistice in Albury | Then and Now

By Doug Hunter, Albury & District Historical Society
Updated November 5 2018 - 3:06pm, first published 2:25pm
MARCH: A “March to Freedom” along Dean Street on July 2, 1918, aimed to secure more volunteers only a few months before hostilities ceased.
MARCH: A “March to Freedom” along Dean Street on July 2, 1918, aimed to secure more volunteers only a few months before hostilities ceased.

There were rumours of the war’s end, hotels had been closed on Friday, November 8, but it was not till 7.30pm on Monday, November 11 that Alderman HG Davies appeared on the balcony of the Town Hall, clutching a telegram and shouting to the startled passers-by that the armistice had been signed and the war was over. 

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