Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

George Underwood Fraser Alley papers, 1900-1920
MLMSS 1253

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George Underwood Fraser Alley papers
Correspondence
19—1919
Death certificate
1919
Newscuttings and printed material
1900-1920

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Contents
Correspondence 19—1919 + Pages

19-- - G.U.F. Alley to Mrs A.I. Alley, six letters 1-43
1916 17 Aug. – Base Records to Mrs A.I. Alley, telegram 45
1916 19 Aug. - Base Records to Mrs A.I. Alley, telegram 47
1916 4 Sep. - Base Records to Mrs A.I. Alley, telegram 49
1916 10 Sep. – G.U.F. Alley to Mrs A.I. Alley, written by an unidentified hand – 51-58
1916 16 Sep. - G.U.F. Alley to Mrs A.I. Alley, written by an unidentified hand – 59
1916 10 Dec. – G.U.F. Alley to Mrs. A.I. Alley – 61-63
1916 21 Dec. - G.U.F. Alley to Mrs. A.I. Alley – 65-66
1917 24 Jan. – Base Records to Mrs. A.I. Alley – 67
1917 2 Mar. – Joe Bilton to Mrs A.I. Alley, telegram – 69
1917 2 Mar. – G.U.F. Alley to Mrs A.I. Alley, telegram – 71
1917 8 -- - G.U.F. Alley to Mrs A.I. Alley, telegram – 73
1919 - --- - Randwick Military Hospital to Mrs. A.I. Alley, telegram – 75
Death Certificate 1919
1919 8 Apr. – Death certificate of G.U.F. Alley – 77
Newscuttings And Printed Material, 1900-1920 – 79 -87

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At Sea

My Dearest Mother
Hope you received my wires O.K. before leaving. We had a very busy time during the week before embarkation. There were four of us missed in our examination at the Officers School & we are all together in the one Company and rather pleased at having missed, as if we had passed it would have mean’t another few months in Camp at W.A. drilling recruits. We’ve had an excellent trip right throughout & very little sickness, as usual the sea did not bother me at all except to increase my appetite to such an extent that I am always hungry & ready for my meals. Will start another long diary letter like I wrote from Africa & send you shorter notes in between. We had splendidly cool weather crossing the equator, in fact have not had any warm weather to speak of at all. You can send me the Knitted things as soon as

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you like as they will come in very handy during the winter months. Hope the girls & yourself are in the best of health & good spirits I think Malcolm is somewhere near us & will have a look round for him in a few days. As soon as I get a chance will send you some photos & Card of Cairo & Surrounding places. Am forwarding under separate cover photo of members of the Officers School Claremont. Fondest love to the Girls & your Self
from ever your Loving Son
George

3250 Sergt. G.U.F. Alley
11th Reinf. 11th Battn.
3rd Brigade
A.I.F.
Abroad

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Mail closes tonight, just received a bunch of papers from you & girls but no letters guess they are floating around Egypt. Am glad we are out of that ancient land, it certainly reeks with all kinds of rotten smells & iniquity & where we are now is certainly one grand country, just like one immense garden & farms & orchards & vineyards all kept scrupulously clean. In the wine country it is hard to realise there is such a war going on except for the fact that you notice at once that all the work is done on the farms by women, old men & children. Still address your letters the same Sgt. G.F Alley 11th Battalion 3 Infantry Brigade, Abroad. Hope you are still improving in health and that the girls are all fit and well & finding lots

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of orders. The sox and woollen gloves & mits are certainly very acceptable now as the mornings are bitterly cold and occasionally very heavy frosts, with now & then a change to cold rains, When you are sending more you can make them thinner, as I like them better, and when it is necessary one can wear two pair. We get lots of good tucker here now, even bread & butter & cigarettes & Tobacco, although the smokes are mostly gift stuff We can hear the sound of the big guns bombarding day & night. I don’t wonder at Kaizer Bill wanting to get this little slice of country, but his chance is Buckleys Fondest Love to the girls & Self from Every your Loving son George

Am inclosing some snapshots taken while on the boat & in Egypt hope these reach you safely.
George

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My Darling Mother,
No letters to hand from home since arriving in France am anxiously looking forward for Some. Hope you are all well and in the best of health & that business is keeping up. I see Malcolm McPherson nearly every day, he is camped about ½ mile away from us & we drift together of an evening & swop news. he is in the 3rd Engineers, wrote to you a few days ago.
All the boys are trying hard to learn French now and it is funny to hear the various attempts to get the

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correct pronunciation. The French people are also making hay while the sun shines and seizing every opportunity to learn a few English words and phrases. The people are very hospitable and have a high regard for the Australian troops, It was feared at first that when the colonials reached France they would not behave properly but up to the present have all been of excellent behaviour & it is a pleasure to go anywhere and see how the people trust and respect all of our boys. The

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weather is beginning to break now and get a little warmer with not quite so much rain Everywhere in the country is just one mass of cultivation & Verdure, no waste or bare ground visible anywhere, even right up to the trenches you see all the fields cultivated & growing crops everywhere. It is hard to realise at times that there is a war going on until you hear some extra heavy bombardment & the rattle of the machine guns, when you wake up and duck. We get well fed & well clothes here much better than when we were

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in South Africa, Also warm bath every week. A big wooden tub (1/2 a large barrel full of hot water) A Company goes down at one time & there are about fourty tubs & of [here inserted "C. Coy 11th Battalion 3rd Brigade"] course each man gets clean water When we strip we take our dirty clothes to a window & get checks for clean ones that are procured at another window, where we can always get clean towel, shirt underclothes & sox (clean & darned) & once every three or four weeks a new pair of sox is issued to us from the Quartermasters Stores. Fondest love to Girls & Self From Ever your Loving Son George

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My Dearest Mother.
The mails have been very erratic lately and it is sometime since I had a letter from you all. We are in the thick of it at last. There is some noise about, just like continuous thunder sometimes. Tomorrow the 25th is the anniversary of the Australians landing at Anzac but we are a long way from there now. This is an awfully wet country, seems to do nothing but rain from one weeks end to another, and very cold nights, altho. they say next month will be fine and warn with no rain.

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Sent you a little packet of souvenirs from here a week or so ago. hope you receive them O.K.
George

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I am keeping in splendid heath and feeling very fit. Suppose Malcolm McPherson is here somewhere, but can not run across him, When I joined up with the original Battalion in Egypt I had to revert to the ranks as a private, but was promoted to Corporal ten days later and a fortnight later while on the Mediterranean was promoted back to Sergeant. Our first promotions with the reinforcements was only provisional until

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we joined the Battalion when we automatically revert to the ranks as privates and if their are any vacancies and a man is judged competent he is promoted after joining. I would like to tell you news of the war but for one ting we are not allowed and then again you get more news and hear more about how things are going then we do ourselves. In my last letter was included some photo snap shots taken on the boat from W Australia and in Egypt, and in case

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that letter went astray will also include the remainder here We are expected to say so little in our letters that one is hard pushed for material to write on.
Hope everything is well with with you all & that your health is still improving.
Fondest love to girls & self from Your Loving Son George
3250 Sgt G.F. Alley 11th Bat. 3rd Bge

The cap comfor[indecipherable] & sox & mits are very handy in this climate.
Still same address.
George

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Somewhere in France

My Darling Mother
Several letters to hand from Yourself & the Girls recently. Hope by now you have got some of mine, Its a shame the Photos have never turned up, hope the snap shots reach you safely. I saw Malcolm a few weeks ago, he is quite well and has already received his baptism of fire. Around our trenches we get it fairly warm sometimes and we are getting really expert at dodging bullets & shells. When there is a bombardment on we keep in pretty close to cover & get well down, the noise is

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something indescribable, a real inferno. All the boys stand up to the music like men and don’t flinch, in fact we were congratulated by the General for the soldierly way in which we hang on. At other times things are very quiet and it seems hard to realise there is any war on, however these spells don’t last long. It is a great place for birds around here & they seem to be quite used to the noise of war & the smell of powder, in fact lots of them are born in the firing line & probably would not feel at

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at home in a peaceful country. I have already acknowledged receipt of two parcels about a dozen times & will keep on till I hear from you have received one of mine. I am keeping in splendid health & feeling very fit, we get lots of tucker in the trenches & plenty of work to sharpen our appetites. We were billeted around a village for some time and it was very gratifying to our chiefs to note the splendid behaviour of the boys among the natives & we have a

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great name with the French people. Xpect to see Malcolm again in a few days again time & will give him your messages. he has written you several times & I know is looking forward to a letter from Aust Bella Hope you are feeling much better & that your eyes are getting better. Glad to hear the Crisp is turning out a success, hope the girls are lucky enough to catch David Jones business, it will mean a good thing. I received a packet of Cigarettes & tobacco

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from a Mr Smith Bank of N. S. Wales Sydney, distributed among a lot of gift tobacco etc from Overseas Club. I acknowledged his gift on the post Card enclosed asking him to let you know if he received same. Fondest love to girls & Self from Ever Your Loving Son George

C. Coy
11th Batt.
3rd Brigade
1st Australian Division
Abroad.

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Somewhere in France

My Darling Mother
We are still on the winning side & where, not holding our own are going forward a little. Have been in the trenches for some time but at present are back from the firing line for a rest, While we were in the firing line things were fairly active and Fritz was caused much annoyance. Our casualties were pretty heavy, but, I think there were considerably more among the ranks

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of the huns. This is a very wet country raining nearly every day. We expect to go for a bath tomorrow. every body looks forward to it especially when just out of the firing line, where we have to sleep fully dressed and equipped all the time in order to be always prepared for a surprise attack. The baths are taken by about sixty men at a time, An old Laundry has been converted into a bath house and an

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unlimited supply of hot water is always available the Tubs are made from big barrels cut in two & every man can get a hot water shower & a tub of clean water & I can tell you that every body takes full advantage of the privilege & has a real good soak, Another good thing, if you have any dirty clothes also the underclothes & shirts one is wearing. You strip & carry all

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your soiled clothes to a window where chits are given for each article & at another window you are given the clothing called for, all clean & mended & disinfected, of course. Sometimes one hands in a good pair of sox and gets a poor pair in return but the next time it may be the other way round & the same with your other Articles of clothing. however its

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a great boon as I never did like darning socks & mending my own clothes. Do you ever see or hear of Joe Bilton now & is he still in Sydney. Malcolm McPherson came to see me a couple of days ago, said he had received a letter from Rene, he is a real nice fellow & was thoughtful enough to bring me out some smokes, thought we were unable to get them being so close to firing line (in the Supports) Hope

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you have received some of my letters ere this with the Snap shots, Am so sorry you did not receive the Group Photo taken at the Officers School Out of four of us that came away together in the same reinforcement, from that Photo, one is killed & one wounded. We had a very hot little bombardment one night & our casualties were very heavy Our parapet for some distance was levelled to

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to the ground and all over where it had been were big crater like holes some of them ten feet deep & twenty to thirty feet across, the bombardment only lasted a couple of hours but during that time it was estimated Fritz threw about 7000 shells at us, & all concentrated on a very small sector, then he tried to come over to our lines & got right up to them, but evidently forgot

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something & hurried back leaving some trophies of raiding out fits etc & taking a few wounded back. Our Battallion was congratulated by the General on the way we stood up to the attack & replied Of course our Artillary opened up also & the noise was something awful Hope Your eyes are much better & that you all are having the best of health. Fondest love to all from Ever Your Loving Son George

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[Telegram.]
E.T. No 1.
Commonwealth Of Australia
Postmaster-General’s Department, New South Wales.

Telegram
This message has been received subject to the Post and Telegraph Act and Regulations. All complaints to be addressed in writing to the Deputy Postmaster-General."]
[Office Date Stamp "Crow’s Nest N.S.W. 17 Aug 16"]
Station from, No. of words, check, and time lodged. Remarks.

Melbourne 38/2/10 - 6.10 pm 16th - Mrs. A.I. Alley 400 Miller St. N.S.

Regret reported Son Sergeant George U. F. Alley admitted 24th General Hospital 28th July gunshot wound Chest and leg severe will promptly advise if anything further received
Base Records

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[Telegram.]
E.T. No 1.
Commonwealth Of Australia
Postmaster-General’s Department, New South Wales.

Telegram
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[Office Date Stamp "[indecipherable] N.S.W. 19 Aug 16"]
Station from, No. of words, check, and time lodged. Remarks.

Melbourne 27/1/11 - 5 30 – Telephoned
Mrs A I Alley 400 Miller St North Sydney NSW

Now reported son Sergeant George U F Alley dangerously ill will furnish progress report when received
Base Records
7 28 LF

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[Telegram.]
E.T. No 1.
Commonwealth Of Australia
Postmaster-General’s Department, New South Wales.

Telegram
This message has been received subject to the Post and Telegraph Act and Regulations. All complaints to be addressed in writing to the Deputy Postmaster-General."]
[Office Date Stamp "Crow’s Nest N.S.W. 5 Sep 16"]
Station from, No. of words, check, and time lodged. Remarks.

Melbourne 27 1/11 6 p.m. 4th - Mrs A. I. Alley 400 Miller St

Now reported son Sergeant George U. F. Alley progressing favourably will furnish further progress report when received
Base Records

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E. Ward. The Norfolk War Hospital Thorpe Norwich

My dearest Mother
So glad you received the snapshots alright, and that some of my letters have reached you. No! I have not met Mr. Budden yet, if I do I will have a look at that War Chest

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and see if I can’t get a job on it. My letters are sent on to me regularly by the Orderly Room Sergeant who was one of my clerks in the eleventh. This place is frequently visited by the Zepps: but so far they have not been troublesome. We get

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a great deal of rain here. I am progressing at a wonderful rate and expect to be out in about three of four weeks time, that is Convalescent. I have been in bed all the time since I have been here, and have kept very quiet, and have been looked after excellently by every one. My wounds are not at all painful and I am beginning to eat three square meals a day. You all know what that is. Would like to get a parcel of your sweet’s sent here. I suppose those that

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have arrived at the trenches since I left have been well and faithfully consumed by the boys, as I told one of my pals if a parcel came for me to wade into it. I suppose as soon as I am allowed out of bed, I will be sent to a Convalescent Home and drafted back from there to my Regiment or if I can get leave or

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furlough I may get a trip to Australia, as there will not be much doing in France in the Winter. With Fondest love to the girls & yourself
Your loving Son George

3250 Norfolk War Hosp
George Thorley
Sept 10th 19

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[Telegram.]
E.T. No 1.
Commonwealth Of Australia
Postmaster-General’s Department, New South Wales.

Telegram
This message has been received subject to the Post and Telegraph Act and Regulations. All complaints to be addressed in writing to the Deputy Postmaster-General."]
[Office Date Stamp "Crow’s Nest N.S.W. [indecipherable]"]
Station from, No. of words, check, and time lodged. Remarks.

Melbourne 29 2/1 6 p 15th Mrs A. I. Alley 400 Miller St NSW
Copy to C Nest
Now reported son Sergeant Geo. U.F. Alley still progressing favourably. Will furnish further progress report when received. Base Records

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Harefield Park Hospital
Dec 10th 1916
My Darling Mother

I have been transferred to the above named hosp. a couple of weeks ago and a few days after arrival was boarded for Australia which means that I will be coming home on one of the first hospital ships leaving for down under. Am feeling pretty good now altho. my shoulder wound is not yet healed the piece of shrapnel went in under the collar bone and came out thro the shoulder blade, fracturing a couple of bones on its way thro. Until the shoulder heals my right arm from the shoulder to elbow is practically useless. The wound in my leg was caused by a piece of shell casing, hit me on the back of thigh just above knee & took out a small lump of flesh and injured some of the muscles so that I wont be able to walk for a month or two yet & owing to the wound in my shoulder am unable to use crutches, so I just lay in bed and poke fun at those fellows that have to get about on crutches & they sling off at me for not getting up.

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Am writing this with my left hand and have to stop every now and then for a spell when you got the news that I was seriously ill I was down with Tetanus & was looked on as a nine days wonder afterwards for getting better. I had a few words with the Doctor afterwards for sending out word that I was so bad, as I knew it was only a temporary indisposition, he laughed at me & said I cheated the undertaker & he wished all his patients were as tough. I expect to catch a boat sometime in January & will probably have to land in W.A. first & get permission to go on to a Sydney Hospital as I will have to have Massage treatment for some time after getting home. You might write to Drew McP. & thank him for writing & tell him I will answer when I see him also the kiddies. I was tickled to death to get their letters last time I heard from Malcolm he was still going strong. hope he is going to get them O.K. altho some of the boys don’t mind getting a bit of a whack that will give them a trip to blighty for a month or two

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to Copes Creek D P Dickson

We are very well looked after here and are fortunate in having a very fine girl as our Nurse, her name is Sister McIntosh, comes from Sydney. Glad to hear that Russel Richardson has been heard of A couple of our Battalion were reported missing from Fleur Baux (our first time in the trenches last May) & somebody had a letter from them and they reckoned they were being well treated, so probably Russel R will be fairly well off. It is a good thing if Mr Richardson knows that a weekly parcel of food is sent from the Red Cross Society also clothes & tobacco to one prisoner in Germany. Mr D.P. Dickson for whom Mr R. used to ship parcels to Copes Creek is here tracking missing soldiers (Visits hospitals with a list of missing from every Battalion & shows them to the new patients as they arrive & they are often able to give news about one or two, probably having seen them taken prisoner or blown up by shell) & has been buried etc. Dickson is going to find out how Russell is & what parcels

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have been forwarded to him & been acknowledged.
You had better not answer this as I will probably be on my way to Australia before your letters can get here. Am sending you a cable for Xmas. No more parcels received Guess they opened them at the Battalion I have been writing this letter since the 10th & must finish now as the mail closes today. If you know anybody else wants any information about any Soldier Dickson will be only too glad to send it them address, D. P. Dickson, Bank of Australasia London. Fondest love to the Girls & your Self from Ever your loving Son
George

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[Australian Military Hat Badge – Rising Sun.]

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Harefield Park Hospital
21 Dec

My Darling Mother
Am sending you a Cable tonight for Xmas, as I was unable to write six or 7 weeks ago having just been thro another operation to take some bone out of my shoulder, am getting on alright now, expect to go home about January sometime. Have just had a present from Queen Mary a Hot Water bag, two came to each ward. Mr Dixon says Russel Richardson sent a card 10th Sept asking for books & clothes which were sent, first parcel of food sent 27th Sept. and every week since. Dixon told me he wrote Fred Richardson a long letter last week giving all the information he could. Hope you are all having a real jolly Xmas & a happy New Year. heard from Malcolm today he is still going strong.
Fondest love to the girls & self from loving Son George

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[Envelope dated Dec 28 16
Addressed to Mrs A.I. Alley
Cromarty 400 Miller Street North Sydney New South Wales
Australian Auxillary Hospital Harefield, Middlesex]

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Commonwealth Of Australia
R.M. Department Of Defence,
Melbourne. 24th January 1917

Dear Madam
I am in receipt of cable advice to the effect that No. 3250 Sergeant G.U.F.Alley, 11th Battalion. is returning to Australia on Hospital Ship "Kanowna" and is due in Fremantle about the 24th February 1917.

It is to be noted that owing to possible mutilations in the cabled advice and other causes this notification may not be correct pending certification from the roll on arrival of the Hospital Ship.

Your faithfully,
J.H. Lean. Major, Officer i/c Base Records

Mrs. A.I.Alley
400 Miller Street
North Sydney N.S.W.

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[Telegram.]
E.T. No 1.
Commonwealth Of Australia
Postmaster-General’s Department, New South Wales.

Telegram
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Station from, No. of words, check, and time lodged. Remarks.

WA 365 Perth 39 1/ letter 10 46 pm
Mrs Alley Four Hundred Miller St North Sydney P F Sydney

Saw George arranged him to go direct to Sydney he well and hearty cannot yet walk therefore does not wish you meet boat kindest regards
joe bilton

11 45 a XE

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[Telegram.]
E.T. No. 1.
Commonwealth Of Australia
Postmaster-General’s Department, New South Wales.

Telegram
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[Office Date Stamp Crow’s Nest N.S.W. [indecipherable] 17"]
Station from - No. Of Words. - Check. - Time lodged. - Remarks.

Perth. W.A. 17 1/1 [indecipherable]
Mrs Alley 400 Miller St NS
Coming direct to Sydney call hospital day after boat arrives
George 9 am [indecipherable]

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E.T. No.7.
Commonwealth Of Australia
Postmaster-General’s Department, New South Wales.

Cablegram
This message has been received subject to the Post and Telegraph Act and Regulations. All complaints to be addressed in writing to the Deputy Postmaster-General.
Number and Route
Pacific 301

Station from, Date and Time Lodged.
London 14 5th 2.10 pm

Number of Words and [indecipherable] instructuctions.
[indecipherable]
Alley
400 Miller St
Happy Xmas recovering rapidly invalided home Dec 29th 22nd
Alley
9 – a m 9th

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[Top part of document missing]
Commonwealth Of Australia
Postmaster-General’s Department.
Porterage
E.T. No. 2.

To Mrs Alley
400 Miller Street NS

This message has been received subject to the Post and Telegraph Act and Regulations.
All complaints to be addressed in writing to the Deputy Postmaster-General.

Station from - No. Of Words. - Check. - Time lodged. - Remarks.

18 Randwick Military Hospital 5P

Regret Sergt Alley is critically ill with pneumonic influenza
Secty. Military Hospital
Time Received 558

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Form No 12.
No. of Certificate 15
DEATHS in the District of Randwick in the State of New South Wales.
Registered by Ernest Henry Strachan District Registrar.
1. No. in Register – 115
2. Description - When and where died – 8th April 1919 No. 4 Aus General Hospital Randwick (late of West Australia
3. Name and surname, rank or profession. – George Underwood Fraser Alley
Soldier & Superintendent of Works (Public Service
4. Sex and age – Male 39 years
5. Cause of death; duration of last illness; medical attendant by whom certified; and when he last saw deceased. – Pneumonic Influenza. Broncho-pneumonia Broncho pneumonia, Cardiac failure – K.M. Garrett, MB Ch. M (registered) 8 April 1919
6. Christian name and surname of father, if known, with rank or profession. – Alfred Underwood Alley. Commercial Traveller
Christian and maiden surname of mother. – Ann Isabella. Fraser.
7. Signature, description, and residence of informant. – C. Collins – Private. No. 4 Aus. General Hospital Randwick.
8. Signature of District Registrar, date, and where registered. – E.H. Strachan 9th April 1919 Randwick
9. If burial registered – When and where buried – 10th April 1919 Presbyterian Cemetery Gore Hill
Undertaker by whom certified – Wood Coffill & Co. Ltd.
10. Name and religion of Minister; names of witnesses of burial – Arthur J. Wade, Presbyterian E Hawkings Thomas Ryan
11. Where born, and how long in the Australasian Colonies or States, indicating which. – Orange. N.S. WALES
12. If deceased was married – Where, and at what age, and to whom. – Port Arthur. Canada about 27 years Emma Caufield No issue

I, Ernest Henry Strachan do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of an entry in a Register of Deaths kept at the District Registrar’s Office, at Randwick and extracted this 26 day of May 1919
EM Strachan
District Registrar.

[Official stamp of New South Wales registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages district of Randwick At Randwick]

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[Printed document entitled "Ours is the debt! Australia! Not transcribed.]

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[Stamp with some Chinese characters] Willie Sing Gardener, Harden, N.S.Wales

Jan [indecipherable] 1909

Mr Willie Sing
Market Gardner
Harden
My Dear Frind I just Write you these few lines hoping you are a good [indecipherable]. Dear frind you Would be kind Enought to trust me. What I owe you. I am sorry the Sessions is not to good I have got no crops of Petoetes good this year Dear frind the time Will soon be Bittes Now soon as I have the Money I Will send you as soon as I can Will I Want you to Let Me Now What Prize the Redskins Patetioses Let me no if they are good But have no grade in them that I Will soon Make a start to deal with you again I am Verry truly to be a good frind I [indecipherable] deal to get the Piatoes oof another place. When you get this letter Lit Me know soon
You Will oblige
Willie Sing
Market Gardner
Harden

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[Printed items not transcribed: "Do it to-day", "A Business Man’s Prayer".]

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[Copies of two news cuttings, and three, it appears, press photos. News cuttings headed "Pozieres – Fourth Anniversary and "That’s the Digger."]

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[Copy of news cutting headed "On the Steps" – not transcribed.]

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[News cutting headed "An Orange Boy in Johannesburg – a Dutch Wedding".[Not transcribed]
Mr. G.U.F. Alley writes to his mother, Mrs. A.U. Alley, who has kindly placed the letter at our disposal:- Johannesburg, April 5." [Not transcribed]
[Card] "Embarkation of Troops for South Africa (Second Contingent) On 17th January 1900 Admit Bearer to Wharf, Woolloomooloo Bay, at which S.Ss. "Surrey" and "Southern Cross" are lying. This ticket will not admit Bearer on Board the Steamer.

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[Copy of part of the card reproduced on the previous page]

[Transcribed by Rosemary Cox for the State Library of New South Wales]