His Little Treasures - Royston George Duncan
You may have read recently that I have been entrusted with digitizing some family heirlooms. This is my next contribution to the "finds" therein. Coincidentally and most fortuitously it fits in with this week's Sepia Saturday theme. Marilyn aka Little Nell says: You can let your imagination run free with your responses to this one. Street traders, roadside artisans, menders, cobblers, tools-of-the-trade, hand-colouring and lantern slides This postcard has, I think, Dorothy Grace DAW (nee HINDE's writing on the back of the postcard) on the right hand side. On the left, very faintly, you can see some other writing. It says from Cousin Roy to Hinde family. So I imagine that is Roy's writing. How precious. Roy enlisted in the AIF 25 August 1915 at the age of 21 years and 5 months. Less than a year later he was killed in action. Roy was the sixth child of Alexander DUNCAN and Julia O'SULLIVAN. He was born 189...