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| Queensland Police Christmas card celebrating Federation |
August 1901
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Dear Mamma and Pa,
I am now sixty and write to tell you I have retired from the Queensland Police Force on a full pensin. Most years in the service have been good to me. But for the past five my health has not been good due to my time in the north. Indeed I received a report I was unfit for duty from the Government Medical Officer some years back and have for some time been unable to ride adequately.
It has largely been the children Isabella and I have been blessed with that have kept me in the force. We have now eleven children with the addition of Ethel, Maude, Thomas and Linda.
I remain, your loving son, James
Mr and Mrs John Warner
Mitchelstown, Cork, Ireland
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