Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 60
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[Page 60]
We got on board the SS Upolu without further mishap - I don't quite know what impression we create but there's no question about it that for frankness of speech & fulness of comment & a job to be done give me a submarine officer - There is a strong feeling on the Upolu that we could win the war & round up the Germans better than the rest of the fleet & that we ought to be given shore billets - I to be P.M.O. - if not Governor – when this show 'wipes out' or washes out as the chaps say -
The Australia & the Sydney are in – God help a German fleet now -
Sunday Sept 20 - 1914- A bathing party of which I formed one- went off at 6 - 15 am to the pier - We enjoyed this very much - The water was cool & refreshing - The usual mob of soldiers all evidently enjoying themselves were present - Breadkfast at 9 & then a quiet morning - In the aftn Captain Moore & I went ashore & paid 2 visits – 1st to the Commandant of Police & then to the Provost Marshall - Our business was twofold – to get niggers & to get rifles for this vessel - 9 rifles are too few for us & we want to get some of the German Mausers & Ammunition