Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 95
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[Page 95]
her last dive was a beauty - She sank in a beautiful horizontal line & went right under - Wonderful, deadly craft -
When leisure came I wrote you & also Turner & I thought I should get a chance to-day to send part of my serial tale but its washed out - This morning I dolled up & went on to the Flagship to see the PMO - Saw him & then went down to the Sick bay & saw all his contraptions - A very light bamboo stretcher
[drawing of a stretcher]
with folding side flaps I liked muchly for use in ships, mines & elsewhere - He showed & examd - a Sailor at 29 with something wrong with his right eye - He seemed to me to have overused it in shooting - He was a very good rifle & revolver shot - If it is so it's the first case I've seen of that sort - It's the Peep sight said the Sailor - His vision field was limited & his pupil dilated to a medium size = o - Left pupil = o Color vision normal -
Well I had a cocktail & pushed off with my special job done & that was to return a man to Sydney - We'r now up alongside the Aorangi – the store ship – for water - The Aorangi is up against the pier & this is our closest to lying alongside the thousand foot pier at Rabaul -
We are leaving Rabaul to - morrow for unknown parts – with the fleet – whole or in part - It's grand dry weather & we are – as a company – all well -