My dad has posted over an interesting mix of old family photos and this one is my favourite for the story behind it, for its perfect composition, with the little girl looking straight into the lens and the way she is so at ease with her uncle - this photo is nearly 100 years old.
It dates from 1917 and shows my Dad's mum, Kathleen Williams, outside her home in Eglantine Avenue, Belfast. She is with her beloved Uncle Ninian who had emigrated to Australia a few years earlier and had joined the army. He was posted back to Europe and came home to Belfast on leave to see his family. No-one knew it would be the last time they would see him and so the photo captures a very special moment. He was killed in battle in France the following year, near the end of the First World War.
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