Empire Day Salute

Title: Empire Day Salute
Caption: To the flag Empire Day 1925
Identifier: WFA_146
Description: School children stand in two long parallel rows, all holding their arms up high in a salute. In the foreground are two men, seen from behind. One of them has raised his pith helmet in salute.
Commentary: Empire Day was celebrated throughout the British empire on Queen Victoria's birthday, May 24th. The event took place on the sports field in front of "Canadian Row," where the Canadian missionaries lived.
Date Created: 1925-05-24
Location: WCUU, Chengdu, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/12718447/ackerman-clock-tower-huaxi-campus.html
Original Format: Photographic Print
Relation: Empire Day Track and Field Games; Empire Day Audience
Source: Cory Willmott; Qi Yanan; Luo Junhe
Provenance: Passed down from K & E Willmott to Don Willmott, and then to Cory Willmott. Digitized in 2008 by Elizabeth Willmott.
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-02-17
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image

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