Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 31
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[Page 31]
off Port Moresby we heard - There seems to have been mismanagement in higher quarters than those of the stokers & [indecipherable] - Once on board the Berrima, the action of gravity brought us pretty close to the proximity of the Bar & drinks came along and here we heard how Elwell fell with 3 bullets thro his head - 2 hours after he'd left the ship a gallant Nave officer – How Pockley was dressing a German's wrist - whenthe G.S. hand had been blown away by a detonator – when he got a bullet thro his spine - How Colonel Holmes & his son in law Travers rushed the wireless station & held up 9 Germans with their revolvers & took their arms & locked them up in a room - We picked up Captain Lambton & had more drinks & heard a good deal about Germans & their ways - We saw Dr Howse VC & a good more all talking & enjoying the occasion - Where we sat on the Berrima we cd look forward & watch the niggers bringing out & piling up entrenching tools for no one