My Grandad, Damn Hipster

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Sean McDonnell (left) on shore leave with pal.

He sailed through the ‘Emergency’ dressed in the Belstaff Autumn Winter 2014-15 collection.

Ronan McDonnell writes:

Another hipster from histor; my globe trottin’ proto-hipster Granddad, Sean McDonnell, on shore leave in the Middle East at the tail-end of the Second World War.

As an Irishman on a British Merchant Navy boat he had a single natural ally [and fellow hipster] onboard.

 

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