Item 02: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 5 December 1914-26 February 1915 - Page 113
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[Page 113]
The Destroyers & Una are out for a 10 day stunt & we have to guard!! Rabaul – Lucky we've wireless – I did that job – If I hadn't been there I don't think those sick wd have ever left the pier – I sent men out to collar transport in the shape of trucks – They came back with a hand cart & a truck without a deck – Sailors are fools – The wheels of the handcart dropped thro the planks of the pier & what damned good the bottomless truck was God knows – I told a few men to come with me – In five minutes I had seen a truck – ¼ mile off – I told the men to bring it along – This they did because I'd told them to & it was a definite job – I got my sick inboard with their 'ammicks & off we went – Got to hospital & discharged cargo – piled their 'ammicks in a corner – got my shore crowd together & off I went to the Fantome – Fitz had asked me to lunch on some chickens he'd got – First chicken I've had – Jackson, Bond, F & I enjoyed 2 chickens & cold beer – Then we went to the Una & jumped from the ship's side &