Fryer Family Documents
Box 1 Folder 10:
• Marriage Certificate, Charles George Fryer and Rosina Richards, District of Rockhampton, 1883
• Copy of Certificate of Marriage of Charles George Fryer and Rosina Fryer née Richards, District of Rockhampton, 1883
• Birth Certificate for Elizabeth Stuart Fryer, District of Springsure, 1884
• Birth Certificate of William Thomas Fryer, District of Rockhampton, 1887
• Birth Certificate of Charles George Fryer, District of Rockhampton, 1889
• Marriage Certificate of James Stephen Gilmour and Elizabeth Stuart Fryer, District of Springsure, 1919
• Copy of Certificate of Marriage of James Stephen Gilmour and Elizabeth Stuart Fryer
• Death Certificate of William Thomas Fryer, District of Springsure, 1946
• Memorandum from Queensland Department of Public Correction to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re admittance to Department as a pupil-teacher, Brisbane, 23 Feb 1899
• Annual examination results between 1900 to 1903 for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer as a pupilteacher
• Examination result, Teacher Third Class for Miss Elizabeth Fryer, 1904
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class III, Division 3, 19 Dec 1905
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class III, Division 2, 1906
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class III, Division 1, 1908
• Department of Public Instruction examination results for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer for the Standing of Class II, 18 Mar 1910
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re transfer from Springsure State School to Ashgrove State School, 23 Sep 1910
• Springsure State School Committee resolution to Miss E. Fryer on the occasion of her transfer to Ashgrove, Brisbane, 30th Sep 1910
• Department of Public Instruction examination results for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer for the Standing of Class II, 4 Mar 1911
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class II, Division 3, 15 Dec 1911
• Department of Public Instruction examination results for Miss Elizabeth S Fryer for the Standing of Class II, 17 Jul 1912
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re transfer from Ashgrove State School to Springsure State School, 4 Jun 1913
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class II, Division 2, 5 Feb 1915
• Military Forces of the Commonwealth Junior Cadet Training Certificate for Miss E. Fryer, 2 Dec 1916
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer re appointment as a Teacher Class II, Division 3, 7 May 1918
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re application to take leave of absence with full pay, 28 Feb 1919
• Memorandum to Miss Elizabeth Fryer from the Department of Public Instruction re resignation from Department on occasion of her marriage, 22 Jul 1919
• Mrs Rosina Fryer employment references as matron of the Springsure Hospital and as midwife, 1917 to 1925. These references were required by Mrs Rosina Fryer when she sought to obtain her midwifery certificate in the 1920s. She delivered her first baby at 12 years of age. Information supplied by Mrs Alexis R Lear, Mrs Rosina Fryer’s granddaughter, at the time of donation

Box 2
Folder 1
• Magazine clipping: ‘The Stars Look Down on Bangslappers’ re Norman Lindsay, The Australasian Women’s Weekly, 25 Aug 1971
• Hand annotated scores to ‘Waltzing Matilda’ and ‘Dear Lord and Father of Mankind’ by Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Drawing by John D Fryer ‘in his Uni days when he knew P.R. Inky Stevenson entitled ‘The Moaning of the Tied (Tide).’ Donated by Mrs Alexis R Lear, Townsville niece of G. R. Lear, May 1976
• Newspaper clipping, ‘Mrs Wheeler’s work recalled by family’, The Capricornian, 22 Jan 1975
• ‘Crystal Ball’ A poem typed by Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, 1978 to 1979
• Australian Red Cross Society membership receipt for Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Newspaper cutting: featuring photograph of Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour at a piano on her 95th birthday
• Newspaper cutting: entitled ‘Happy Mother’s Day munching’
• Newspaper cutting: ‘Special tea for some special ladies’
• Newspaper cutting: ‘A mothers luncheon’, 1980
• Newspaper cutting ‘Grandmother is Arts graduate-and all by mail’ [nd]
• Card with Bellevue Homestead on front
• Letters to Mr and Mrs Lear, mainly from relatives

Folder 2
• Unidentified letter dated 1912 [Possibly Lily McCury (?)]. Sender’s address: 3 Spencer Villas, Kingston.
• Unidentified letter page (nd)
• Letter from Lily McCury [?], Spencer Villas, Glenagleary, [Ireland], [nd]
• Card: ‘Greetings from the Camel Corps’ from George Moffit to Elizabeth S Fryer
• Poem: ‘The Supreme Sacrifice’ by John S. Arkwright
• Post card: Patriotic Carnival Procession, (Aug. 26th 1916)
• Christmas Card, ‘Alf - With love to Lizzie’ [December 1917]
• Letter from Aunt Linda Fryer, Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, Ireland to Elizabeth S Gilmour [née Fryer], 19 Oct 1919
• Letter from Aunt Linda Fryer, Ireland to Elizabeth S Gilmour, 9 Dec 1923
• Letter from Veronica Baggaly, Sandgate to Mrs [E. S.] Gilmour, [circa 192?]
• Letter from Aunt Aggie to [?], Sep 1924
• Letter from [Lex Lear?] to [Elizabeth S Gilmour?], 16 Oct 1947
• Letter form Elizabeth S Gilmour to her daughter Lex Lear, 16 Jan 1950
• Letter from Aunt Kitty, [?] Ipswich, Suffolk, England to Elizabeth S Fryer, 15 Feb 1952[?]
• Card from the University of Queensland French Department to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour re her donation to the Mary Alexis Macmillan [Memorial] Fund, 15 Feb 1972
• Letter from Douglass [Fryer], 32 Jackson St, to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, 7 Mar 1979
• Letter from Douglass and Agnes Fryer to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, 11 Jun 1979
• Birthday card and letter from Ann and Don Lear [Grandson], Sandgate to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour, Springsure, 26th Jun 1979
• Envelope with family details of Don and Ann Lear
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour, Townsville to her daughter Lex Lear, 2 Jan 1980
• Letter from Elizabeth S Gilmour to her granddaughter, Stephanie Lear, 4 Feb 1980
• Letter from Don Ryan to Mrs S. Gilmour, 13 Aug 1980
• Letter from Mrs Veronica Sirman [nee Baggerly], friend of JD Fryer, Herstonville Convalescent Home, Herston, to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Bundle: Assorted letters and cards to Mrs Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Twenty postcards + one card (belonging to Rosa Richards [?]) and one small hand painted card (painted by Eunice Gilmour) [previously housed in Kolotex box].

Accounts of John D Fryer’s Life and Obituaries
• ‘The Death of A Friend’, Galmahra, May 1923, author P. R. S. (Inky) Stephenson [photocopy].
• An Old Boy, an ode to John D Fryer by H.A. Kellow Headmaster, Rockhampton Grammar School. Published in the Rockhampton School Magazine, Jun 1923
• Copy of letter sent from Reverend Stevenson, Warden of St John’s College, Tasmania to Mr and Mrs Charles G Fryer, circa 1923
• ‘John Denis (“Chut”) Fryer, 1895-1923’, Colin Bingham, 11 May 1931
• An account of the Early Life of John Denis Fryer by Elizabeth Gilmour [née Fryer]. Nineteen pages typed
• Photocopy of Elizabeth Gilmour [née Fryer] biography, An account of the Early Life of John Denis Fryer
• Additions to Elizabeth Gilmour’s biography of John D Fryer
• Letter from FW Patterson recounting his friendship with John D Fryer, [197?]
• ‘JD Fryer at the University of Queensland’, [author possibly Lord Robert Hall]
• ‘Student Soldier Remembered’. Newspaper cutting and one photocopy of same
• Handwritten notes on the life of John D Fryer, seven pages
• Handwritten note from Mrs Macmillan re three Rhodes Scholarship recipients and early reading of John D Fryer
• Note from Dr. Cecil Hadgraft re John D Fryer’s nickname of “Chut”, 16 Jun 1966

Telegrams
• Jack and Will to Miss E. S. Fryer [Liz], re farewell, 5 Oct 1915
• Joe Furnell to Miss Elizabeth S Fryer [Liz], re Charles Fryer leaving Brisbane for Sydney, 28 Mar 1916
• Lieutenant Colonel Luscome to [?] clerk, George Street, Brisbane, re notification of the death of Charlie [Charles Fryer] ‘killed in action’, 5 Apr 1917
• Notification of Henry Fryer’s arrival in Melbourne, 19 Oct 1917
• Mrs Wheeler to [?] Fryer re Jack’s wounding and hospitalisation, 15 Aug 1918
• Army Base Records to Mr Charles G Fryer re Jack’s [John D Fryer’s] wounding –‘Multiple Gunshot Wounds severe’, 21 Aug 1918

Mementos and keepsakes of war experience
• Three postcards: ‘Souvenir of Voyage of H.M.A.T “Warilda” carrying officers and troops’. Will and John D Fryer sailed from Sydney to Egypt in 1915.
• Post card of T.S.S “Star of Victoria”, ‘Ship on which one of the Fryer’s sailed to war’
• Christmas card unsent: ‘Christmas Wishes from Springsure. To My Dear Boy on Active Service’.
• Card: ‘Tell her that I love her’.
• Prayer card: ‘The Angel at the War’. CG and Rosina Fryer and Elizabeth S Gilmour
• Booklet: ‘What a British Soldier wants to say in French and how to pronounce it. An EnglishFrench booklet for the use of the expeditionary Force’
• Booklet: Poems ‘composed by Mrs L. Cameron whose husband is one of the 6th Field Engineers, Queensland Section , for the purpose of cheering those who are serving our country, also to assist funds to provide comfort for our wounded.’
• Booklet [?] Front image embroidered village centre, ‘Albert 1914’. Inside mounted Banque de France Cinq Franc note
• Cotton Bag
• Post card from [?] to Auntie [?], 30 Nov 1916
• Card: ‘From the Mayoress of Exeter and Committee’
• Army Form W3083: Transport tag accompanying Will Fryer from France to Dover aboard the Anglo-American Hospital Ship St. David. Tag describes type of wound and condition.
• Postcard: ‘Bishop’s Knoll Red Cross Hospital, Bristol’. Hospital in which Will Fryer recovered from injuries in 1916.
• Program: Bristol District Cornish Association, Entertainment to Wounded Soldiers from Bishop’s Knoll Hospital, Bristol, 24 Nov 1916
• Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force Certificate of Discharge: William Thomas Fryer, Brisbane, 21 Aug 1917
• Post card: (“M.C”) K.C.S ‘At Weymouth, Doing His Bit’ From the boys and girls of the old brigade, 1919
• Xmas Greetings, 6th Aust. C.C.S. A.A.M.C. A.I.F., 1942 [Two Cards]
• Seasons Greetings, 1943 to 1944, from Private S.R. Gerrard
• Seasons Greetings, 106 Aust. C.C.S. A.I.F., from Pte. S. R. Gerrard to Mum, Hazel and Fred, 1944

Photographs
Box 3
1 Portrait John D Fryer. Oval Photograph Mounted on Hardboard
2 Rockhampton Boys Grammar School. JD Fryer Seated Second Row, Extreme Right
3 Rockhampton Boys Grammar School, 1909. JD Fryer, 2nd Row, 3rd From Left
4 Rockhampton Boys Grammar School, JD Fryer Seated Extreme Right
5 Rockhampton Grammar School Rifle Team, 1911
6 Cadets [?] and Officer. JD Fryer, Front Second From Left, Perroux Photo
7 Rockhampton Grammar School First Fifteen, 1911
8 Rockhampton Grammar School Cricket Team, 1912
9 Rockhampton Boys Grammar School, First Fifteen, 1913
10 Rockhampton Boys Grammar School, Tennis Four, 1913
11 Rockhampton Grammar School, 1st XI, 1913 to 1914
12 Toowoomba Committee of the School of Instruction
13 Kings College Students Club, 1914
14 John Denis Fryer, 1915
15 St John’s College, 1915. JD Fryer Standing Rear, 2nd From Right
16 Second Old School, Springsure, Prior 1916
17 Lieutenant John D Fryer ‘taken in England’, ‘Love from Jack’, [nd]
18 Lieut. JD Fryer in charge, Springsure Returned Men
19 Annie Margaret Wheeler
20 Lieutenant JD Fryer welcoming Mrs Wheeler (MBE), Annie Laurie at Springsure Railway Station. Copy one of two
21 Lieutenant JD Fryer welcoming Mrs Wheeler (MBE), Annie Laurie at Springsure Railway Station. Copy two of two
22 Mrs Wheeler (MBE), greeted by Lieut. JD Fryer – [large print]
23 Springsure ‘State School Memorial to Past Scholars Who Served in the Great War’.
24 Staffield Hall
25 Australian Football Team, New College, Oxford
26 John D Fryer and Two Officers and Two Women: One Standing, One Sitting
27 John D Fryer and Two officers and Two Seated Women
28 JD Fryer and a Female Companion Riding in a Carriage
29 4024 Ullswater Hotel, From JD Fryer
30 4025 Ullswater Hotel, From JD Fryer
31 Sister Bennett: Asked by W. J. Fryer (wounded) to find if JD and CG Fryer were safe after [?] Farm
32 N. Bennett, At [?]
33 William Thomas Fryer, Aged 26. Died 1949
34 HH Fryer In Hospital, Birmingham. Wounded Messines, 1917
35 ‘To My Dear Son From His Dear Mother and Brother (Walter).’ ‘Worn From Being
Carried at the Front’.
36 Pte. HH Fryer (Aged 21)
37 Elizabeth Stuart Fryer (Aged 29)
38 Charles George Fryer (Aged 24). Killed in Action 1917
39 St John’s Warden – Rev. Stevenson. JD Fryer Seated Extreme Right, Second Row
40 Football team, 1920. Also List of Names In Seating Order
41 University Football Team Taken in Sydney, JD Fryer, Centre, Back Row
42 [Football Team]. JD Fryer Centre Rear, 1920
43 ? Lex Macmillan at Holmes’ in Ashgrove
44 Aunt Lex Macmillan
45 [Aunt] Lex Macmillan, JD Fryer, Mr CG Fryer and Two Unidentified Women
46 Aunt Lex Macmillan
47 Biology Excursion, 1922. Roberts (St John’s)
48 St John’s College, Eight Mounted Photographs: right to left 1st XV 1920, Field Marshall Sir William Birdwood, Field Marshall Sir William Birdwood, St John’s 1920, St Johns College 1919, St John’s College, St John’s College – 1920, centre Engineers – 1919
49 St John’s College, JD Fryer (Inset), Warden – Rev. Stevenson
50 JD Fryer’s Grave In Springsure, [1922] Two Prints
51 St John’s College, Group Portraits, 1923, 1924, mounted
52 St John’s College, Group Portraits, 1925, 1926, mounted
53 St John’s College, 1926 [Group Portrait]
54 ? 1928, [Group Portrait, St John’s College]
55 St John’s College, 1938 [Group Portrait]
56 St John’s College 1940, 41. [Group Portrait]
57 Mrs Elizabeth Stuart Gilmour [née Fryer]
58 Fourteen miscellaneous photographs in an envelope reading; ‘The smaller of these were carried in [John D?] Fryer’s uniform pocket. Henry Fryer now has JD Fryer’s compass, which at this stage means nothing to my Mother [Elizabeth S Gilmour] as it is too small for her to see, Lex Lear, 1979’
59 Lex, Jack, Leonard and Stephanie Lear, Townsville, 1950 to 1951
60 Mrs E Gilmour Aged 87. Sister of JD Fryer. Picture Donated by Mr LC Fisher
61 L to R: Miss Eunice Gilmour, Mr John Fisher, Mrs E Gilmour, Springsure, 19 Jan 1972
Photographs with note by Fedora Fisher identifying them
62 ‘Springsure about the time Jack Fryer knew it’
63 Bundle of eight unidentified photographs

Parcel 1
• Large portrait photograph of John D Fryer [identical to #1 above, size: 32 cm x 26 cm]
• Photograph of Elizabeth Fryer [c. 1910?, size: 35 cm x 30 cm]
• Portrait, Private William Thomas Fryer, nd
• 2 portraits, Private Charles George Fryer, nd
• Portrait, Charles George Fryer, nd

Documents and correspondence relating to the Fryer Family
Box 3
Folder 1
• Remnants of brooch presented to Elizabeth Gilmour [née Fryer], before her marriage, by an admirer who was later killed ‘from a horse’, 1980
• Examination supervision papers
• Miscellaneous envelopes and stamp collections

Folder 2
• Letter to Aunty Kathleen from Alexis Gilmour, 10 Dec 1933, with attached note and envelope dated 1990
• Postcard to Mum from Henry Fryer, 25 Mar 1917
• Photograph, Uncle Bill Fryer’s Ford, Springsure, nd
• Photograph, baby, nd
• Photograph, Graham K and Grandma Fryer, Eunice Gilmour behind and “Toby”, nd
• Photograph, Grandma Fryer in her youth, nd
• Photograph, Charles George Fryer with Eunice Gilmour, nd
• Photograph, Charles George Fryer Senior to left of flag, Springsure Railway Station,John Denis to open door (?), nd
• Photograph, Charles George Fryer (Senior) when younger, nd
• Photograph, Nurses Quarters [Springsure], nd
• Photograph, Old Hospital [Springsure], nd
• Photograph, Springsure Hospital, nd

Folder 3
• Christmas card, nd
• Embroidered postcard from Henry [Fryer] to Liz, 11 Mar 1917, [With explanatory handwritten note]
• Postcard from H Renault to Mr Fryer, 1 Feb 1918
• Postcard, 6CLR Australian Commonwealth Military Force, unsigned, nd
• 4 postcards, blank, depicting various soldiers and camps
• Postcard, JD Fryer, signed ‘love to u from Jack’, nd
• Postcard, blank, JD Fryer’s grave
• Postcard, blank, Private Charles George Fryer, nd
• Postcard from Grace to Will, 8 Jul 1918
• Photograph, Elizabeth and Bill, nd
• Photograph, Staffield Hall (Cumberland, Jack invited here), nd
• Postcard from Liz Fryer to Jack Fryer, 16 Mar 1909
• Postcard, St John’s cricket, 1920
• Postcard, St John’s cricket, 1921
• 3 postcards, cricket and rugby teams
• Postcard from Will Fryer to Mum, nd
• Postcard, ‘Hospital in England where Uncle Henry was’, nd
• Photograph, Rose Cottage?, nd
• Photograph, Will Fryer, nd
• 2 photographs of soldiers, nd
• 2 photographs of rugby teams, nd
• 2 photographs of house, nd
• Photograph, Steve West, nd
• Photograph, May Miller, nd
• Photograph, nurse Alice Kemp, nd
• Postcard, ‘The clutching hand Fred’, Jul 1918
• 3 portraits, Charles George Fryer, nd

Folder 6
Contains a partly preserved booklet of ten poems by HM Morris and one poem by Percy Ranninger 1915 to 1916.

Parcel 1
• Document confirming John Denis Fryer’s commission as Second Lieutenant, Land Forces, 25 Jan 1917 [transferred from Box 3]
• Australian O.C. Football Team, New College, Oxford, Played 15 matches, Won 11, Lost 3, Drew 1 [John D Fryer, 3rd row back , 3rd from right] [identical to #25 above, size: 45 cm x 31 cm] [information supplied by Alexis R. Lear, niece of John D Fryer, daughter of his sister,
Mrs Elizabeth Gilmour]
• Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League (Qld. Branch), Shire of Banhinia, certificate issued to John Denis Fryer ‘in grateful appreciation of his Services for King and Country in the Great War’, 3 Jun 1921 [size: 50 cm x 32 cm]
• Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League (Qld. Branch), Shire of Banhinia, certificate issued to Charles George Fryer ‘in grateful appreciation of his Services for King and Country in the Great War’, 3 Jun 1921 [size: 50 cm x 32 cm]
• Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League (Qld. Branch), Shire of Banhinia, certificate issued to William Thomas Fryer ‘in grateful appreciation of his Services for King and Country in the Great War’, 26 Dec 1918 [size: 50 cm x 32 cm]

Realia
Box 3
Item 1: 1914-15 Star (3044 Ptd J.D. Fryer. 9/BN.A.I.F.) with ribbon bar.
Item 2: British War Medal with ribbon bar.
Item 3: Victory Medal with ribbon bar.
Item 4: Service Chevron
Item 5: Memorial Plaque, bronze, 12 cm, for Charles George Fryer.
Items 6-10: Five badges, 3 cm, with lugs on the reverse.
Items 11-15: Five badges, 2 cm, with lugs on reverse.
Item 16: Framed photograph of JS and ES Gilmour, Bundaberg, 1944

Folder 4
Crochet work by Mrs Eliza Fisher in memory of Charles Fryer, with letter from A R Lear, dated 1981, explaining the history of the work.

Publications and handwritten notes in commercially produced notebook.
Box 2:
Item 1: Complete Works of Shakespeare. Presented to JD Fryer by Boys’ Grammar School, Rockhampton as third prize, fifth form, Christmas, 1910. [Poor condition].
Item 2: Souvenir of Cairo and its Environs with 32 environs [insect damage].
Item 3: Lieutenant John D Fryer’s officer training notebook re munitions and weaponry, handwritten, in an Oxford and Cambridge Universities produced notebook.

Box 3:
Item 17 : 52nd Battalion Australian Imperial Force – Regimental history, with form letter at the preface, with handwritten 'Fryer' after 'My dear'; some handwritten corrects; signed by JL Witham, Lieut. -Colonel, Commanding 52nd Battalion, AIF. Includes nominal roll. 11 leaves, 1918.