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The funeral cortege left the home of the deceased at Highgate Hill and concluded at the Mount Thompson Crematorium. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/117632845

Lewis McDonald (1881-1936), printer and Labor Party administrator, was born on 22 December 1881 at Auchterhead, Lanark, Scotland. Educated at the Brisbane Central School and at university extension classes, McDonald became an apprentice printer but fell ill and in 1905 moved to Mourilyan, North Queensland, where he helped to organize the Amalgamated Sugar Workers' Union. He became assistant secretary to the central political executive of the Queensland Labor Party on 30 August 1909. Secretary of the Queensland anti-conscription campaign committees in 1916-17, McDonald used his considerable administrative abilities to facilitate a 'No' vote both times. An extrovert, McDonald enjoyed a beer, could tell a good story, and liked old-time musical comedies. While he used his secretarial skills in the interests of the A.W.U. faction, he was never personally self-seeking, but he certainly facilitated the growth of an 'official' machine which, with its complaisant politicians, ultimately controlled the movement at the expense of the grassroots and the militant unions. John Curtin called him 'an admirable officer with sound judgment and resolute decision [whose] capacity for makeshift endeared him to all. Others, excluded from office and influence, were less charitable about this gentle, persistent, rule-mongering functionary. McDonald's early craft-union radicalism and personal political hopes were submerged by those structures, rules, and manipulations endemic in that Queensland Labor establishment which he had done so much to construct, refine, and facilitate. McDonald died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at Highgate Hill, Brisbane, on 18 September 1936. Although cremated with Anglican rites, McDonald had long maintained no formal creed. Source: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcdonald-lewis-7339

There's a mention of "Miss Jean Potter and Miss Charlotte Potter" being "on the beach" at Southampton in summer 1922 (apparently visiting for the festivities surrounding a tennis tournament): chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1922-07-07/ed-... "Jean and Charlotte Potter" took part in a 1922 circus-themed fair at Agawam Park, to benefit Southampton Hospital (they helped run the roasted peanuts and popcorn concession). query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00D16FF385D1A7A9... The two Potter girls are also listed among the young women selling programs for a performance at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton that year (New York Tribune, 3 September 1922). I think they're the daughters of banker William Chapman Potter and Caroline Morton Potter, who were divorcing in 1922 (which might account for the girls' busy social calendar that year). Reports about the divorce mention they have two daughters, 17 and 19. Mrs. Potter was residing in Paris at the time. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A15FB355A1B7A9... They had a half-sister, Diana Guggenheim (1924-1991), aka Diane Hamilton: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Hamilton Jean Potter married artist Frederick Soldwedel; they divorced in 1930. Then she married Lt. Edmund C. Stout; she was widowed in 1943 when he died from an accidental gunshot wound in their home in Florida. Charlotte Potter married Reginald M. Lewis in 1926, and divorced him in 1930; then she married a man named Atwood, as his second wife, c1932.

Two young ladies. Beautiful.

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We are spirits.

1912 and so modern as a picture

That's an SE5 or SE5a, note the top wing mounted Lewis gun on a sliding Foster mount.

Thanks. We've tagged the image with this info now.

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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage People with Animals, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

I found this after a chance discovery while researching WWI. I was watching a film about the Battle of the Somme that a friend had recommended and I noticed one of the British divisions had a fox pup for a mascot. It seems red foxes were a popular mascot for the British.