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

Carmel McCarthy selected eighteen letters for transcribing from the collection. Seventeen of the letters were written from Clonburrin House near the village of Fenagh in Co Carlow by various members of the Fryer family.

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

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

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

Cards from William Fryer
• Will Fryer to Elizabeth S Fryer, seven cards, 1915 to 1916
• Will Fryer to his mother, five cards, 1915 to 1916
• Will Fryer to Kitty (Brown), one card [circa 1916]
• Will Fryer to Walter, one card [nd.]
• Will Fryer to Richard, one card [nd.]
• Will Fryer, Field Service Post Card to Mr CG Fryer, Springsure, 25 May 1916
• Post card of Bishop’s Knoll Red Cross Hospital, Bristol
• Hammock tag issued to Will Fryer, Weymouth, 28 Apr 1917

Letters to Mr Charles G Fryer
• National Bank of Kilkenny, Ireland, 5 Feb 1876 to Mr. Fryer
• Tom Fryer, [brother to Charles G Fryer] Clonburrin, Garryhill, Ireland, to Charles Fryer, [Orion Downs sheep station, Central Queensland], May 1880
• Kitty Fryer, [sister to Charles G Fryer] Clonburrin, to Charles Fryer, [Springsure], 25 [Jan] 1882
• William Fryer [brother to Charles G Fryer], S.S. Clan Sinclair, Indian Ocean, near Colombo, to Charles G Fryer, 20 Dec 1882
• Dr William F Fryer to Charles G Fryer, 14 Sep 1882
• William Fryer [brother to Charles G Fryer], Monkton House, Acton, London, to Charles G Fryer, 26 Mar 1884
• Dr William F Fryer to Charles G Fryer, [John D Fryer’s father], 20 May 1884
• Dr William F Fryer to Charles G Fryer, 12 Jun 1884
• Dr William F Fryer, Clonburrin, Bagnalstown to Charles G Fryer, 29 Oct 1885
• William Fryer [brother to Charles G Fryer], Suffolk, England, to Charles G Fryer, 25 Mar 1888
• Mrs. Elizabeth S Fryer [Charles G Fryer’s mother], Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, to Charles G Fryer, 26 Sep 1891
• Mrs Elizabeth S Fryer [Charles G Fryer’s mother], Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, to Charles G Fryer, 20 Sep [nd]
• Mrs Elizabeth S Fryer [Charles G Fryer’s mother], Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, to Charles G Fryer, 20 Feb 1894
• William Fryer [brother to Charles G Fryer], Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, to Charles G Fryer, 22 Aug 1894
• Birthday card from Elizabeth S Fryer to ‘Dad’ [Charles G Fryer], 19 Jul 1917
• William Fryer [brother to Charles G Fryer], Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, to Charles G Fryer, 30 Oct 1928
• Harry Fryer [brother to Charles G Fryer], Clonburrin, Bagnalstown to Charles Fryer, 19 Oct 1930

Letters to Mrs Rosina Fryer
• Mrs. Elizabeth S Fryer [mother-in-law], to Mrs Rosina Fryer, 1891
• Mrs Elizabeth S Fryer, Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, to Mrs Rosina Fryer, 16 Jun [nd]
• Mrs Elizabeth S Fryer, Clonburrin, Bagnalstown, to Mrs Rosina Fryer, 30 Jul [nd]
• Mrs W. Faragher to Mrs Rosina Fryer, 8 Dec 1915
• Major JM Lean, Victoria Barracks, Melbourne to Mrs R Fryer, Springsure re slight wounding of CG [Charlie] Fryer, 26 Mar 1917
• Lilly F Fryer [sister-in-law] to Mrs Rosina Fryer, 15 Apr 1923
• Professor Frederick W Robinson to Mrs CG Fryer acknowledging the donation of a book to the Fryer Memorial Library, 31 Mar 1949. [See similar reference re acknowledgement letter from Professor Robinson to Mr JS Gilmour 31 Mar 1949]

Correspondence, photographs, in memoriam notices relating to Mary Alexis Macmillan, some dated 1969 and the rest undated.