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This is a photograph of my mother and my aunt as Girl Guides.
It must have been taken around 1911/12, not long after the Girl Guide movement had been formed. With them is their Father and older brother.
My mother is the youngest Guide and her name was Dorothy Alexander Chapman, my Aunt's name was Clara Florence Chapman and they lived in Penge, SE London.
