ORIGINATOR OF FLAG-DAYS
Mrs. Agnes Bryson-Morrison, wlio-has died in Glasgow, could claim to have initiated the Flag Day collections, by moans of which enormous sums were raised for Red Cross and other charities during and after the Great War. In September, 1914, Mrs.. Morrison organised "Union Jack Day in Glasgow. It is said to have been the first occasion on which a flag day. collection was over ■made. It was speedily followed by others, and Mrs. .Morrison personally organised^ flag days which resulted in the collection of1: .over £1,000,000 in the United Kingdom. Flag day collections eventually became so numerous that vigorous protests were raised in various quarters against their continuance, and, four years or so ago, Glasgow, the city which saw their birth, decided, liy the vote of its Magistrates, to ban them from the beginning of 1031. Mrs. Morrison was created C.B.E,' in 1020.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 89, 12 October 1934, Page 15
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