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- 1909-1940 (Creation)
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65 photographs, 3 portraits
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The Fryer Family of Springsure began with the marriage when Rosina Richards (16 Aug 1865-24 Aug 1949) and Charles George Fryer married on 19 December 1883. They had six sons and one daughter. The children were: Elizabeth Stuart Gilmour (nee Fryer) (21 Dec 1884-10 Jul 1984); William Thomas Fryer (20 Feb 1887-21 Feb 1946); Charles George Fryer (2 Jul 1889-10 Apr 1917); Henry Hardy Fryer (15 Mar 1892-17 Sep 1990); John Denis (11 Sep 1895-7 Feb 1923); Richard Alexander James (23 Oct 1899-17 Jun 1986) and Walter Ponsonby (18 Jan 1906-16 May 1980).
Elizabeth Stuart Fryer married James Stephen Gilmour. They had three children: Eunice Catherine Gilmour (11 Nov 1921-1 Jan 2022); Lex and John.
Henry Hardy Fryer married Irene Margaret Holmes on 21 November 1923.
Richard Alexander Fryer married Myrtle Ellen Rowlands (19 Apr 1913-?) on 11 November 1934.
Walter Ponsonby Fryer married Emma Amelia Simpkins on 9 October 1935.
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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
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Box 3, Parcel 1
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Created, Linda Justo, 11-May-2023.