Historical information

A photo of 8 boys in a camp kitchen cleaning up after a meal. From the inscriptions it is Somers Camp in January 1968.
Melbourne Legacy provided camps for junior legatees - the children of deceased servicemen. It started with outings to the property of Legacy founder, Legatee Stan Savige, who had a place in Balnarring. Permanent camp buildings were built and with an association with Lord Somers (Governor of Victoria) it was called Somers Camp. The camps gave the children an opportunity of a summer beach holiday with other Legacy children.
It came from a Legacy envelope marked "P6 Junior Legatee Camps and Hols" in red pen, and dated Jan 1977 in pencil. The contents will be items 00418 to 00425.

Significance

A record of Junior Legatee camps.

Physical description

Black and white photo of boys cleaning up the camp kitchen.

Inscriptions & markings

Legacy P6 in blue pen. Stamped "The Property of Melbourne Legacy" and 19 Jan 1968 in purple ink. Stamped "Copyright Herald and Weekly Times" in blue ink.
Paper label typed in black ink "(k) After a 'dip in the briny' and a big meal, even washing up the dishes is fun for these country Junior Legatees at our Somers Camp." Also "K" underlined twice in black texta.