George’s niece Jenny Speirs, pictured at her 90th birthday party in July.
As we approach the centenary of the signing of the armistice to end the First World War, the Argyllshire Advertiser will publish a series of extracts from a wartime diary with a difierence.
Th e diary belonged to blacksmith and engineer George Kennedy, who emigrated from Scotland to Australia in 1912, aged 31, with his wife and baby daughter. At the outbreak of war in 1914, George, and many others, answered the call to return to Britain and assist with the war effort in the manufacture of munitions.