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Fryer, John Denis, 1895-1923
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- Fryer, Jack, 1895-1923
- Fryer, Chut, 1895-1923
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1895-1923
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John Denis (Jack) Fryer was born on 11 September 1895 at Springsure, Queensland, son of Charles George Fryer and Rosina Fryer (née Richards). Charles and Rosina had seven children: Elizabeth Stuart (later Gilmour), William Thomas, Charles George, Henry Hardy, John Denis, Richard Alexander James and Walter Ponsonby. Jack won a scholarship to the University of Queensland and commenced study in 1915. By the end of first term, Jack decided to volunteer for military service in the first Australian Imperial Force. He was commissioned in 1916 and went to France. On 4 August 1918 the Fifty-First Battalion was in the line near Amiens when they were attacked; among the casualties was Lieutenant Fryer who had wounds to his arm, leg and thighs. After being hospitalised in Britain, Jack returned to Australian in July 1919. He re-enrolled at the University of Queensland for the first term of 1920 to complete his English honours examinations. While at University he was engaged in extra-curricular activities such as cricket, rugby, editing magazines including Galmahra with P. R. 'Inky' Stephensen, the Dramatic Society, contributed to the recently-founded St. John's College magazine Argo (using the pseudonym 'Chut'). In September 1922 he was hospitalised for tuberculosis. His mother travelled from Brisbane in December 1922 and took him home to Springsure in early January 1923. He died on 7 February 1923. In 1926, as a memorial to their former member and vice-president, members of the University of Queensland Dramatic Society donated £10 to establish a collection of works in Australian literature. The Fryer collection was maintained in the English Department until the 1950s when it became part of the University of Queensland Library.
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Revised, Linda Justo, 24-Nov-2022, 29-Apr-2020
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'Student soldier remembered', Western Suburbs Advertiser, 18 Nov 1970, p. 2.
Cryle, Mark (2011). 'A very small acorn': tracing the origins of the Fryer Library. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics V (2) 57-63, accessed online via UQ eSpace, 24-Nov-2022.
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Updated with Authority Record ID, Linda Justo, 29-Apr-2020