Draft typescript article written by Richard Fotheringham for The Australian Literary Review which was published with the title 'Inside the killing fields of Queensland' on October 6, 2010, pp. 12-13. This article was written after the discovery of a memoir by Thomas Davis, father of Arthur Hoey Davis (aka "Steele Rudd"), which discussed massacres of Australian Aborigines in his time of working in Queensland in the 1800s. Fotheringham suggested the name of the manuscript.

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Typescript report, 1 leaf, signed by H. Selkvik, the Under Secretary for Lands, dated 14 July 1920, regarding the two accompanying sketches of two Aboriginal bora grounds in the Moreton Bay by Surveyor General Oxley. Sketch no. "1": Copy of a drawing in field book no.216 Department of Lands containing original field notes by John Oxley Surveyor General in connection with survey of Moreton Bay dated 9th to 11th October 1824. Sketch no. "2": Copy of drawings in field book no.217 Department of Lands containing John Oxley's original field notes of his survey of Moreton Bay dated 11th September to 12th October 1824.

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Letters and Cards to William Fryer
• Ruth Mathews, London to William Fryer, 25 Apr to 16 Jun 1937
• Easter card, from [?] to Will Fryer, 5 Apr 1917

The series is comprised of letters from and to John (Jack) Fryer; and documents relating to him such as birth and death certificates, educational reports and results.

Letters from William Fryer
• William (Will, Bill or Billy) Fryer, Brisbane to Liz, 17 Jun 1915
• Will Fryer, Sydney to his mother, 7 Oct 1915
• Will Fryer, A69 Warilda, to Liz 12 Oct 1915
• Will Fryer, Helmich Camp, to Liz, 19 Nov 1915
• Will Fryer, Helmich Camp, to his Mother, 19 Nov 1915
• Will Fryer, Helmich Camp, to his Mother, 2 Dec 1915
• Will Fryer, Helmich Camp, to Kitty, 2 Dec 1915
• Will Fryer, Polygon Camp, Abassia, Cairo, to his Mother, 21 Dec 1915
• Will Fryer, [Egypt], to Liz, 10 Feb 1916
• Will Fryer, Tel-el-Kebir, to Liz, 27 Mar 1916
• Will Fryer, OAS, Egypt, to his mother, 13 Apr 1916
• Will Fryer, postcard reading ‘Miss Edith Cavell, Murdered, Oct 12 1915 Remember!’ [nd.]
• Will Fryer, [France] to his mother, 7 Jul 1916
• Will Fryer, France, to Liz, 30 Jun 1916
• Will Fryer, France, to his mother, [nd.]
• Will Fryer, In the Field, to Liz, 20 Jul 1916
• Will Fryer, France, postcard to his mother, 18 Aug 1916
• Will Fryer, No. 5 Red Cross Hospital, France to his father, 22 Sep 1916
• Will Fryer, Bishops Knoll, No. 5 Red Cross Hospital, [France] to Liz, 26 Sep 1916
• Will Fryer, Bishops Knoll [Hospital], to Liz, 5 Oct 1916
• Fryer, Bishops Knoll, to Miss E. S. Fryer, State School, Springsure, Queensland, 14 Oct 1916
• Will Fryer, Bishop’s Knoll, to Liz, 26 Sep 1916
• Walter Fryer, circa 1916
• Will Fryer, Dorset to Liz, 15 Feb 1917
• Will Fryer, No. 1, Command Depot, Pesham Downs, Salisbury Plains, [1917]
• Will Fryer, Brisbane to Liz, 18 Aug 1917
• Will Fryer to Richard, postcard, n.d.

Letters and Cards from William and John Fryer
• H.M.A.T. Warilda, Will and John Fryer to Liz, 7 Oct 1915
• Will and John Fryer, ‘Greetings From Egypt’, Christmas card to Liz, [December 1915]
• Will and John Fryer, ‘Greetings From Egypt’ Christmas card, to Mother, [December 1915]
• Will and Jack Fryer, ‘Greetings From Egypt’ Christmas card to Dick, [December 1915]
• Will and John Fryer, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, to their mother, 15 Jan 1916
• Will and John Fryer, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, to their mother, 18 Jan 1916
• Birthday card, ‘Love to Dick from Will and Jack’
• Christmas card, from ‘Will and Jack to Dad’
• Farewell card, ‘Farewell to My Dear Father’ from Will and Jack
• New Year card, ‘To My Dear Mother’, from Will and Jack

Letters and Cards from Charles Fryer [John D Fryer’s brother]
• Charles (Charlie) Fryer, Exhibition Grd. [Brisbane], to Liz, 2 Nov 1915
• Charles Fryer, Eton Ground, [Brisbane], to Liz, 20 Nov 1915
• Charles Fryer, Exhibition [Grounds, Brisbane], to Liz, 30 Nov 1915
• Charles Fryer, Exhibition Grd., to Liz, 3 Jan 1916
• Charles Fryer, Exhibition, to Liz, Jan 1916
• Charles Fryer, Brisbane, to Liz, 7 Feb 1916
• Charles Fryer, Exhibition Ground, to Liz, 3 Mar 1916
• Charles Fryer, postcard, Egypt, to his mother, 1916
• Charles Fryer, France, to his mother, 30 Jul 1916
• Charles Fryer, France, to Liz, 13 Sep 1916
• Charles Fryer, France, to Billy, 18 Sep 1916
• Charles Fryer, France, to his mother, 26 Sep 1916
• Charles Fryer, France, postcard to his mother, 30 Sep 1916
• Charles Fryer, France, to his mother, [possibly censored by military censor], [13?] Oct 1916
• Charles Fryer, France, to his mother, 16 Dec 1916
• Charles Fryer, postcard to his mother, ‘A Happy New Year 1917’
• Charles Fryer, postcard to Liz, 6 Mar 1917
• Charles Fryer, France, to his mother, 17 Mar 1917
• Charles Fryer, four postcards to his mother, undated
• Charles Fryer, four postcards to Elizabeth S Fryer, undated

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

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].

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