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Letter 2 to Laura MacKINNON from Cliff dated 29 August 1917
Letter 2 to Laura MacKINNON from Cliff dated 29 August 1917 
 

The letter reads:

Miss L. MacKINNON
8 O'Grady Street
Clifton Hill
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia

My Darling loved one.

Am very much taken with the little bit I have been able to see of this place. There are some magnificent churches and cathedrals etc.

Tata
Cliff

Laura Annie MacKINNON, (1893-1984), father Ewan and mother Euphemia Cath nee CUNNINGHAM. She lived at 8 O'Grady Street Clifton Hill in 1917. Her brother Duncan Cornelius embarked with the 24th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement, Regimental Number 3568, as a Private, and returned to Australia commissioned as a Lieutenant on 28 February 1919. Laura married James Thomas BARNARD in 1926, had two children and lived in Hughesdale, and then Carnegie, Victoria until her death at the age of 91.