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14/07/2025
Helena Bertha Grace Rice (21 June 1866 – 21 June 1907) was an Irish tennis player who won the singles title at the 1890 ...
02/07/2025

Helena Bertha Grace Rice (21 June 1866 – 21 June 1907) was an Irish tennis player who won the singles title at the 1890 Wimbledon Championships. She is to date the only female player from Ireland ever to win a singles title at Wimbledon.

A machine-gun company posing with their 8mm M.07 Schwarzlose Maschinengewehr in travel setup.
01/07/2025

A machine-gun company posing with their 8mm M.07 Schwarzlose Maschinengewehr in travel setup.

Brought to life.
01/07/2025

Brought to life.

Photo editing back in the day! Look closely at the original photo. - this intimate portrait isn't all it seems to be.Ph...
30/06/2025

Photo editing back in the day! Look closely at the original photo. - this intimate portrait isn't all it seems to be.

Phoebe posed for this portrait with her three children. Her beloved husband Edward 'Duncan' Hood was already serving on the Western Front.

For Phoebe, a portrait without Duncan didn't feel right. She asked the photographer to insert her absent husband's image.

Phoebe's idea was that even though the family had been separated, they were still bound together emotionally.

One of the children in their best cursive script carefully wrote in blue pencil the family members' names. Phoebe then posted the photo of the united family to Duncan.

On the back of it, Phoebe scribbled:
'Dear Dunk, I am sending you a photo, don't laugh at it ... Let me know when you get it. I hope you receive it safe and don't get a fright.

Duncan cherished the photo and carried it with him wherever he went.
The family never reunited. Just as Duncan was sharing tea with his mates, a shell killed him and two others at Flers on the Somme on 25 October 1916.

When Duncan's personal belongings were returned to his family, so too was this photo.

Phoebe later received a heartfelt letter from Duncan's mate, Private John Fitzgerald, who wrote: 'I have a wife and three children, just the same as your poor husband had. He often said to one, you know Jack, you and I should be at home with the missus and kiddies.

'I used to say to him, never mind we will meet in Queenscliff again Dunk but I'm sorry that cannot be now.'
Duncan is buried at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery. His epitaph reads: His name shall live evermore.

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