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]

Letters to Colin Basil Peter Bell from various people, except his mother, Margaret Miller Bell, from 1894 to 1933

Letters to Colin Basil Peter Bell (on death of brother Joey (Joshua Thomas Bell)), legal battle, Ossie Bell (Oswald Marmaduke Dorsey Bell), 38 letters, 1881 to 1933 [very fragile]. Order of Service for commemoration of the life of The Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell, 19 Mar 1911. Address to his Excellency Major-General Sir Herbert Charles Chermside, 19 May 1903

On cover of original folder "Melbourne Shrine Figures" (original folder discarded). This file includes incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding the commissioning of eight symbolical figures to be placed in the Inner Sanctuary of the Shrine of Remembrance (the National War Memorial of the State of Victoria). Daphne Mayo was selected by the Citizens' Committee of the National War Memorial of Victoria to submit a model for the figure of 'Integrity'. Due to insufficient funds the committe was unable to proceed with the commissioning of the Figures. The file also has a copy (no. 11) of the National War Memorial Specification. Respecting eight marble figures for inner shrine for the "Shine of Remembrance" at The Domain, South Yarra for The Committee of the National War Memorial. This copy has bound with it The first brochure on the first premiated design The National War Memorial of Victoria (1924); two folded plans for the 'Detail section of inner shrine of remembrance' and 'Plan at Shrine Floor Level'; and the Offical guide to the Shrine of Remembrance : The Domain Melbourne (signed by Daphne).

22 newspaper cuttings (one has handwritten notes attached) about the Godfrey Rivers Trust, 1933 and undated.

Includes notification card sent out by Gertrude and Karl Langer announcing the conferral of their PhDs. With a photograph taken at the conferral ceremony.

Photographic prints of people, plantation life and scenery in the Australian Territory of New Guinea. Locations include Ningau, Witu and Rabaul. Many of the photographs show local people and European-Australians.

Handwritten notes, in pencil. At top of first page 'Notes from 'The Artist" March 1933 to Aug 1933. by Jan Gordan'. From handwritting determined to be the work of Vida Lahey.

Two technical drawings and two blueprints for the Church and School at Mossman.