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'Account of Wages' for Raymond Parker WARBURTON

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Board of Trade

1916

Overview

Single cream coloured page, “Account of Wages”, in the name of “R. WARBURTON”, dated 08/05/1916, while he was serving on HMAT Pera. Document issued by the Board of Trade. At top of page, under name of Ship and Official Number is stamped, “PERA” in purple ink and handwritten in black ink, “116002”.
In the middle of page, “Wages: for 5 months 8 days”, and handwritten in red ink is “Admiralty Bonus”. The signature of Master, “S.Finch”, is stamped in purple ink at bottom of page.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2025.2.8

Item type

Documents (Statistical)

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 1

Material

Width

190 mm

Height or length

245 mm

Weight

4 g

Inscriptions and markings

Wages amounts handwritten in black ink wages (pounds), “52 13 4, Admiralty Bonus “5 5 4”, Deductions 27 10, Balance Due “30 8 8”.

Contextual information

Raymond Parker WARBURTON was employed as an Electrical Engineer on board the HMAT A4 Pera, a transport ship owned by P&O London, which was leased by the Commonwealth during the First World War. Raymond was employed on 1/12/1915 in London and was discharged on the 09/09/1917. This “Account of Wages” details his wages for a period of 5 months and 8 days, including an Admiralty Bonus.

Keywords

First World War

Place made

London, United Kingdom

Year

Primary significance criteria

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Comparative significance criteria

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Object’s condition or completeness

Well provenanced

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Geotag

-35.030449, 117.912878
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Last modified

Friday, 23 January, 2026

Completeness

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