Historical information

A photo from a newsletter from September 1953. The photo shows the Kew boys class, which met at the Kew Drill Hall on corner of High Street and Highbury Grove, Kew on Friday nights at 7.30. The instructors were Messrs Tom Mann and Jack Costello and has 53 members
Front row: Eddie Robertson. Seated: John Linton, Bob Bateson, Robin Broderick, Michael Johnson, Tom Olsen, Graeme Murray, Douglas Govey.
Centre: Mr Tom Man (Instructor), Legatee HJ Martin, Legatee AR Beattie, Mr J Costello (Instructor).
Back: John Barker, Kerry Wisdom, Garry Thompson, Gerald Brown, Rod MacKinnon, John Shaw, Graeme Withers.
Other names mentioned in the article include new boys, Alan Bateson, Douglas Govey, John Linton, Robert Bateson, Evan Houston, Robert Ritchie, Robin Broderick, John Huxtable. It also gives the phone numbers of Legatees AR Beattie, HJ Martin, A Crawford and RS Isherwood in case a reader would like their son to attend a class.
The article mentions that the photos of the boys classes were donated to Legacy by Mr John Beckett of Sandringham.
Individual photos being catalogued to record detail about each one.

Significance

The newsletter outlining news of Junior Legatee activities with mentions of boys by name.

Physical description

Black and white photo of the Kew boys class printed in a newsletter in September 1953.