On This Day, 24 June 1918

Birmingham Daily Post 

Monday 24 June 1918

IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN.

“IVY SUNDAY” IN BIRMINGHAM.

It was “Ivy Sunday” yesterday, the day when between five and six thousand men within the local branches of the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilised Sailors and Soldiers took part in a drumhead service in Victoria Square, Birmingham, “in solemn commemoration of those who nobly striving have given their lives for their country and the cause of humanity.” This was the second annual service of its kind, and the afternoon being fine, the attendance of the public was large. The men were marshalled in the Crescent, and with them were detachments of the Women’s Volunteer Reserve, the Scouts, and members at the friendly societies. About sixteen branches of the federation, one from Wolverhampton and another from Bilston, took part in the procession, which, with banners waving and half a dozen bands, brass and bugle, playing, marched by way of Edmund Street, across Colmore Row, and up New Street, into the Square. Here they lined up round the platform in the centre, completely filling the reserved part of the Square.