By George Kennedy
George Kennedy pictured as a young man in the mid 1890s, second from left. In the picture are his mother, left, sisters Minnie (Jenny Speirs’ mum, born 1890) and Annie with older brother James on the right.
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We left Melbourne on Sunday May 6, 1917 at 12 noon by special train to Sydney for embarkation, stopping en route at Seymour where dinner was served and 1,000 troop reinforcements were picked up.