Item 02: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 5 December 1914-26 February 1915 - Page 175
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[Page 175]
& find my Quinine gone – Also every patient gone – Rabaul is washed out – As we steamed back to Rabaul twixt 3 & 4 pm we saw the Navua (Union S.S.Co) go out – She had over 1000 souls on board – Skeete was on her so I'm the only Naval Dr in Rabaul – The men on the Navua cheered the Fantome vociferously but we were not allowed to cheer – Naval discipline of the wrong sort – We should have returned cheer for cheer & the Captain – if necessary – should not have heard it – No other officer would I know –
Well then N & I went up to the top Hospital to say good bye to Fitzherbert & Flood – We did it over bumpers of Moselle – Back to the town (1 mile walk) Aboard – Dinner – Then Walker the navigator came off – 4 sheets in the wind – with 3 white cockatoos which he had promised to take to Sydney – We other 4 officers sat on the ship's rail & abused the birds & him