Letters to Colin Basil Peter Bell from men who had worked at Westland, during their World War I service, 13 letters, 1915 to 1918. Correspondents include: Bob Thompson Cowlishaw and Harold E. Lawrence. Photocopies maps and newspaper cuttings related to World War I battle sites accompany the letters.

Three typescripts by J. J. C. Bradfield, presented as part of the John Thomson Memorial Lectures at the University of Queensland in 1918. The first lecture, on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Scheme, was delivered in two parts on 26 July 1918 and 2 August 1918 respectively. The first part is titled 'Burrinjuck Dam, weirs and regulators, main canals'. The second part is titled 'Water system on the irrigation areas, irrigation settlements and townships; the development of the farming, dairying, and fruit growing industries on the areas, with establishment of factories for the treatment of farm produce'. The second lecture, undated except for the year 1918, is titled 'Principles governing the location and design of the Sydney city (underground) railway'. Three typescripts originally held together with metal fasteners in a bound binder folder. Lectures separated by linen paper inserts and original typed title pages that state the lectures were delivered at 'Brisbane University'.

2 volumes of newspaper cuttings, mostly from the Courier-Mail, about Queensland Premier T.J. Ryan pasted onto pages. One volume contains cuttings dated 1915 - 1916, the other dated 1917. Some handwritten notes and annotations on inside covers of one volume.

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 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

This file has three items:

1. Carbon copy typescript, 4 leaves, of a letter to the editor [of The Daily Mail] by Archibald Meston where he comments on Randolph Bedford being on the Queensland Legislative Council, dated 16 May 1917.
2. Typescript of two leaves, of an extract from Archibald Meston's book 'Geographic history of Queensland - page 175', titled 'Charles Fraser'. The book was published in 1895. This extract described the activities of Charles Fraser, a botanist who was sent to Brisbane in 1828. [This material contains culturally sensitive depictions of Indigenous people.]
3. Poem by Archibald Meston When Murphy comes : Advance of Kuropatkin Murphy to the relief of Port Arthur Morgan, 2 leaves handwritten, signed and 2 leaves typescript, both have footer Daily Mail, 1904 June 14.

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

Letters from Henry Fryer
• Henry Fryer, Fraser’s Paddock to Liz, 12 May 1916
• Henry Fryer to his Mother, 24 May 1916
• Henry Fryer, Chermside, to Liz, 25 May 1916
• Henry Fryer, [At Sea], to Liz, 1916
• Henry Fryer, At Sea to Liz, 1916
• Henry Fryer, At Sea, to Liz, 1916
• Henry Fryer, Ipswich, [Suffolk], to his Mother, 8 Aug 1916
• Henry Fryer, On Active Service, to his Mother, Sep 1916
• Henry Fryer, Codford, to Liz, 23 Dec 1916
• Henry Fryer, Codford to Liz, 3 Jan 1917
• Henry Fryer, Codford to Liz, 15 Jan 1917
• Henry Fryer, France, to his Mother, 24 Jan 1917
• Henry Fryer, Dartford, to Liz, 23 Jul 1917
• Henry Fryer, Clonburrin, [County Carlow, Ireland], to his Mother, 31 Jul 1917
• Henry Fryer, Monte Video, No. 2 Com. Depot, Weymouth to Will, 18 Aug 1917
• Henry Fryer, Weymouth to his mother, 21 Aug 1917
• Henry Fryer, Weymouth, to Liz, 27 Aug 1917
• Henry Fryer, A Group, [?] Citadel, Portland to Liz, 17 Sep 1917
• Henry Fryer, Folkestone, to Will, 23 Jan 1917
• Henry Fryer, [London], to Liz, 3 Jun 1917
• Henry Fryer, Westham Comp., Weymouth, to Liz, 1 Oct 1917

Handwritten letters to family from Frederick (Fred) William Scott Martin during his war service in World War One. The correspondence in this file begins while Martin was convalescing in Weymouth and ends with postcards sent from France.

Handwritten letters to family from Frederick (Fred) William Scott Martin during his war service in World War One. The correspondence in this file begins while Martin was in the trenches at the Western Front. His final letter is dated 31 August 1917. Martin was killed in action in Belgium on 20 September 1917. The final documents in this folder are an article about Martin published in The Humpybong Halcyon newspaper on 20 October 1917, a letter from the Queensland Department of Public Instruction to Martin's father, dated 6 December 1917, and a copy of a Commonwealth record detailing the actions that led to Martin being awarded the Military Medal.