Photo of the week - ANZAC Day

Each week the staff who describe the digitised photographs in our collection select a photo that is added to SLQ’s Flickr Commons Photo of the week 2013 set. This week our photo is in remembrance of ANZAC Day and is a portrait of three brothers who served in World War 1.

The young men pictured are Colin, Kenneth and Glen  Kennedy, sons of James Kennedy and Sophia Hansen. Colin and Glen served with the Australian Imperial Force and Kenneth with the United States Air Service.

Colin served as a Private in the 1 to 8 (QLD) Reinforcements. You can see his embarkation record at the Australian War Memorial. Glen served as a Private in the 9th Infantry Battalion - 13 to 23 Reinforcements.

Kenneth, pictured in the centre, wrote in the Croydon papers under the name of "Young Croydon". He left Croydon when he was 23 years of age for the far North to try his hand at mining and moved to the United States in 1911, first to Hawaii and then to California. He enlisted in the US Army Aviation Section Signal Corps where he repaired and installed airplane motors. He remained in California for the next 15 years without returning to Australia.  All three brothers survived the war.

The John Oxley Library holds the Kennedy Family Papers which contains correspondence, photographs, and postcards exchanged between members of the Kennedy family.

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