Photograph, 8th August 1917

Historical information

The people were attending a memorial service which took place on the local Sunbury sports ground in Evans Street during World War 1. The local sportsmen's band entertained the crowd at the event, which commemorated the servicemen who had lost their lives during World War 1.

Significance

Many young men from Sunbury enlisted and fought on battlefields during World War 1.

Physical description

A non-digital sepia photograph with a cream frame of a crowd of people standing in the centre of a sports ground.

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