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Transcripts of letters written by Alec Doyle while Engineer Officer of H.M.A.S.Parramatta 1914. These letters were mainly to members of the Pockley family. (A.P.D. 1985)
"Parramatta"
Coast of North Queensland
Dear Guy, 7.8.14
Just a note to let you know the run of things; are off up coast to rendezvous later with fleet & busily getting ready to scrap a German cruiser who is in between; great excitement just a moment ago as we just sighted a steamer but believe it now to be a North Coast boat. We are in a hell of a state, with woodwork and a boat ditched and bulkheads ready to be shored up & all bright work painted over, rigging frapped down it´s like a mixture of Marryatt and^the-day-of-the-boat-race sort of thing. By the time you get this I expect you´ll have much much more important news; we can´t get any yet and it makes me uneasy.
So long Sonny, love to all your people
Yours
AlecB. Doyle