Fry family papers, 1861-1923

MLMSS 1159

fonds

422095

Microfilm : CY 992, frames 1-48 (MLMSS 1159/1); CY 2131, frames 1-246 (MLMSS 1159/2); CY 2131, frames 247-673 (MLMSS 1159/3); CY 2131, frames 674-883 (MLMSS 1159/4); CY 2132, frames 1-377 (MLMSS 1159/5); CY 2132, frames 378-703 (MLMSS 1159/6).

4 vols. 1 folder, 1 box

James Kight Fry emigrated with his family from England to New Zealand 1861 and in 1864 moved with them to Victoria. His son James Arthur Barrett Fry, 1850-19--, was the father of Alan Fraser, Dene B. and Dorothy Fry. In World War I A.F. and D.B. Fry served with the Australian Imperial Forces. They died in France in 1916 and 1917 respectively, A.F. Fry having previously served in Egypt and D.B. Fry on hospital ships. Dorothy Fry worked in the Djakarta office of a British company 1919-1923

I. James Kight Fry
Diary kept on board the African from Gravesend to New Zealand, 29 Jan.-9 June 1861

II. James Arthur Barrett Fry
Diary kept on board the African, from Gravesend to New Zealand, 29 Jan.-10 Feb. 1861;
Forty Years in the Civil Service, 1876-1917 being reminiscences of Fry's work in the General Post Office and in the Department of Mines and Agriculture, N.S.W., with verses on various aspects of civil service employment.

III. Alan Fraser Fry and Dene B. Fry letters to their parents and miscellanous papers, 1914-1917

IV. Dorothy Fry, 1910-1923
Letters mainly to J.B. Fry, 1919-1923; Miscellaneous items sent from Djakarta, 1919-1923

James Kite Fry amended to James Kight Fry on the advice of reader, 12 March 2020.

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Life Interrupted: Personal Diaries from World War I - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 21 September, 2014)