ANZAC Day, Adelaide

This watercolour was completed in Adelaide in 1936, not long after MacNally had moved to the city. It is, as the inscription indicates, 'an impression of ANZAC Day, 1936'. It is also the 21st Anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli. The scene is set on the corner of King William Street and North Terrace, with the Boer War memorial pictured on the left. In the foreground are men playing bag pipes, who could be members of the South Australian Piper's Band, and behind them are some nurses. It is uncertain if these were nurses who served during the First World War, as the uniform is not consistent with that war however, an article from The Advertiser published on 25 April 1936, indicates that returned nurses would be marching in the ANZAC Day parade. Lining the street are groups of onlookers.