This file has three typescript copies (two are carbon copies) of 'Recollections of Thomas Davis' collected by Steele Rudd, two of which have a note in the top right-hand corner 'In the posession [sic] of Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell circ. 1908-9'. One copy has handwritten emandations.

These recollections were shared with his son, Arthur Hoey Davis (1868-1935) (whose pen name was Steele Rudd) mostly likely in the early 1900's. Thomas Davis was a former convict. His memoir covers the period from 1849 to the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859. Davis initially worked with J. C. Burnett's Survey Party. He recounts stories of the places he visited and their history, various encounters with local indigenous groups and individuals, language and culture of the Aboriginal people of the area, kinship system in the Maronoa and Balonne region, and a list of more than 100 names and phrases in the dialect of the people of the Balonne, Dawson and Comet river. Joshua Peter Bell is mentioned several times in memoir. This and other recollections by Thomas Davis were collected by Joshua Thomas Bell in the first decade of the 20th century.

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]

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

Notes from Alexander Johnston. Typescript and carbon copy, 4 leaves, with note on first page ‘In the possession of the Hon. J. T. Bell. Circ. 1908-9’, undated. One typescript copy, 3 leaves, undated. Johnston recalls his time on the Darling Downs where he arrived in 1842, his time in Canning Downs, hostilities with Aboriginal Australians including at Soldiers' Flat and Laidley, Jimbour, Dalby, and people such as Ludwig Leichhardt, Henry Dennis, and Warraba.

Copy of the booklet Inauguration of the University of Queensland on Queensland’s Jubilee Day, 10 Dec 1909, Cumming, Govt. Printer, Brisbane; with a facsimile of admission card for the Hon. J. T. & Mrs Bell. Inserted are loose hand written notes for the speech in the booklet by the Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell (Speaker of the Legislative Assembly)

Correspondents include: Bert Kay, V.N. Thompson, Kelly’s father Robert Watson, and her future husband (Francis Angelo) Timothy Kelly.

‘Recollections of the Darling Downs – 45 years ago’ by FRA Rickards, 3 typed copies of a letter from FRA Rickards to JT Bell, with cover note, 2 Nov 1909. Joshua Thomas Bell asked that F.R.A. Rickards write to him with his recollections of the Darlings Downs. The letter, only just over a foolscap page of typescript, from Rickards mentions various towns, farming stations, and people of the area. There are three typescript copies of the letter with the a typescript page attached to each explaining how Rickards wrote to Bell.

‘Codrington Crawshay’, with note on first page ‘In the possession of the Hon. J. T. Bell. Circ. 1980-9’, typescript, 3 pages, 2 copies, and copy of first page, undated [Extract from ‘The Northern Miner’, Mon 25 Apr 1910]

Three diaries written by Allan Nash from 1909 to 1915. Diary of 1909 and first part of 1914, records Allan Nash's daily life as a teacher and working on the farm in Gympie, Queensland. Diary of 1914 (second part) records Allan Nash's enlistment and training with 2nd Australian Light Horse, and their departure from Brisbane and landing in Egypt. Diary of 1915 records their deployment from Egypt to Gallipoli, landing there on 12 May 1915, and events at Gallipoli up till Allan Nash's death on 29 June 1915. This diary includes a few personal papers, and card from Mrs A W Nash of thanks for sympathy in loss of Major Allan Nash.