The Only Photograph – John McGing, London c. 1940
Studio portrait of John McGing
What is happening in the photo?
This is the only known surviving photograph of John McGing as an adult. This image illustrates him in a London studio having a formal portrait taken. A sacred heart pin is visible on his jacket. It is believed that following his marriage breakdown to his Irish wife Winifred Derrig he left for London to start a new life. They had no children. He died in 1956 aged 37 of an ‘internal pain’.