1931 Guide Company
Photo and text courtesy Mary Macdonald.

The studio photograph of the Guide Company should prove interesting if there is a company in the district, because it shows the uniforms of those days. Notice the Captain and Lieutenant wearing leather gauntlets! I (Mary Kelly), am in the back row on the far left as you look at it - the one with the badly-knotted tie. Seated, center front, is my father, Rev. T. Churchward Kelly. (In those days, of course, he was never addressed as anything except Mr. Kelly, certainly not called Tom.) On his right is Mrs. Quinton, the then Guide Captain, though she resigned during 1931 and Joyce Truran took over. On his left is my mother, and sitting on the floor to her left is my sister, Lois, 8 years old. (She died in '89.) I don't think the Lieutenant on Mother's left is Joyce Truran - I seem to remember Joyce as big and 'well-built'. I am fairly sure the photo was taken in '31, as I have passed my tenderfoot and been enrolled - I was a Brownie before that in Adelaide - and we only came to West Preston half way through '30. Say late '30 or early '31.

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