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Subject has unknown insignia and initials RFC on left breast pocket on jacket. Possibly a football club?

Young Girl with bow and slide in hair.
Image taken outside in a countryside setting.
Possibly related to slightly younger girl in MG.310, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Young girl with bow and slide in hair, holding bunch of flowers.
She's sitting on a plaid blanket outside, house in background.
Possibly related to slightly older girl in MG.309, who holds same bunch of flowers.

Photo taken same time as MG.310 and MG.309
Girls had bow and sits on plaid blanket outside

Young girl with bow and slide in hair, holding bunch of flowers.
She's sitting on a plaid blanket outside, house in background.
Possibly related to slightly older girl in MG.309, who holds same bunch of flowers.

At the home of her grandparents Charles and Mary Dennis of The Bungalow,
Perran Crossroads.

HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in 1915, she was assigned to the Grand Fleet and participated in the Battle of Jutland. Other than…

Clive Carter´s "Cornish Shipwrecks, The North Coast" states: This wreck´s tragic story began at 2.30 am on the 22nd January 1939 when St. Just coastguard sighted a large steamer smothered by breaking seas 2 miles north of Cape Cornwall. At the time…

Features Bell Leader, Birch, Benj Leader and Henry Tippett
(of Boleigh Farm)

The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.

Towards the end of her career she was…

The largest sailing ship lost anywhere between Land's End and St Ives was the Liverpool ship Alexander Yeats, launched in 1876 by D. Lynch of Portland, New Brunswick, as a wooden full-rigger of 1,589 tons.

Towards the end of her career she was…

The 2,070-ton Busby was launched in February 1894 at Stockton as a steel screw schooner-rigged steamer for the general Indian trade of Ropner & Co of West Hartlepool. She had made only one Indian voyage when she sailed from Newport on the evening of…

The 2,070-ton Busby was launched in February 1894 at Stockton as a steel screw schooner-rigged steamer for the general Indian trade of Ropner & Co of West Hartlepool. She had made only one Indian voyage when she sailed from Newport on the evening of…

Lamorna on the quay

Postcard of an etching of 'The Nile' . Wrecked off Godrevy Point partially responsible for a campaign to instal a lighthouse on Godrevy
Source: Wikipedia
The Nile, an iron-hulled screw steamer, was built at Dumbarton in 1850. She was first…

Porthgwarra

The family at Porthgwarra

Family at Porthgwarra

Lamorna Mouse Michael