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Studio Portrait Three Young Sisters c.1915

1915
Studio Portrait Three Young Sisters c.1915

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Winifred Sinclair Gunn, Jessie Constance Kerr Gunn, and Dulcie Margaret Calder Gunn.

“This is my three eldest sisters, we were a family of nine – seven girls, two boys. My two eldest [sisters] pictured here were born in Blomfontein, South Africa. My mother was born in Bangalore, India, in 1887. My father was from Lasswade and Loanhead, born in 1886. [He] met mother when his regiment [was] in India. They married in Poona, India, in 1906. Mum was English. [My father] was a pipe major in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and Cameronians.” – Shiona Fraser [2004]

Donor number: 0153-001

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