Part 01: Alan Fraser Fry letters, 8th August 1914- 28 January 1917 - Page 45
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[Page 45]
S.S.Seang Bee"
Ashore near Thursday Island
Thursday 18th Feb 1915
Dear Father,
I wrote to Mother last night, but am afraid that owing to the strict Censorship it was not very interesting. However tonight I am going to tell you a lot of things that I daresay will not be known by everyone in Sydney. I am able to do this owing to "INFLUENCE" again.
Well we got to Brisbane, or rather Pinkenba early Saturday morning 13 Feb. There were a fair number of people there, and on the whole we had a great time there. I wrote home, & threw the letter over the side to a lady who promised to post it for me – did you get that one? It was to Mother if I remember rightly.
In the afternoon we took some 350 Queensland troops on board, making a total of about 1100 – so you can imagine how