[Leica] IMGs: Sailor Boy and Sailor Man

[Nathan Wajsman]

I love these stories about your connection to Irish history, painful as it is at times.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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> On 23 Nov 2022, at 02:24, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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> My father Louis Barry made his first communion in 1916 and was decked out in a sailor suit which was apt as he was never far from the sea being a competitive swimmer and diver. As you can see this is part of an image taken of a school group by someone with a large format camera, just look at the hand on his shoulder.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Louis+1st+Communion+1916+sml.jpg.html
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> Then again, as it's a little girl's hand, perhaps it was just his companion at the altar, as with first communions, boys and girls of different schools were paired up. I never found out the back story, but I remember the girl who walked up the aisle with me on the occasion of my own communion. Her name was Catherine and we were both in the same class at the local convent. She was the daughter of TK Whitaker who propelled Ireland into the modern age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._K._Whitaker Although her father lived to be 100, sadly Catherine died in her 40s.
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> My father obviously liked sailor suits as, after he was expelled from his second school, his father packed him off to Cardiff as a cadet in the British merchant navy. He got a chance to wear this one from the age of 16 and did seven laps of the globe at 11 knots with various ships the Reardon Smith Line.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Louis+in+officer_s+uniform+sml.jpg.html 
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> I'm glad I didn't choose a sailor suit for my first communion...
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> Douglas
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