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Black and White Photograph of Raymond Parker WARBURTON and Four Unidentified Crew Members

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Raymond Parker WARBURTON

c. 1915

Overview

Black and white photograph of Raymond Parker WARBURTON and four unidentified crew members. All crew are standing on the deck of the ‘SS Pera’, wearing full uniform including peaked caps. Raymond is pictured third from left, with crew member next to him smoking a pipe and the crew member on the right looking through binoculars. Photograph has been taken while at Gallipoli, (as per inscription on rear).

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2025.2.14

Item type

Photographs

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 1

Material

Photo Paper

Width

102 mm

Height or length

75 mm

Weight

2 g

Inscriptions and markings

On back handwritten in blue ink “R.WARBURTON”, and underneath written in pencil “SS Pera / Gallipoli”.

Contextual information

This photograph of Raymond Parker WARBURTON and other crew members has been taken on the deck of the, ‘SS Pera’, and states on the rear that they were at Gallipoli.
Raymond was employed as an Electrical Engineer on board the Admiralty Transport Pera. HMAT A4 Pera, a transport ship owned by P&O London, and leased by the Commonwealth during the First World War. Raymond served on the ‘SS Pera’ between 01/12/1915 and 09/09/1917.
SS Pera was used to transport Australian and New Zealand troops overseas and was of the ships of the first convoy amassed in King George Sound, Albany WA. The convoy departed 01/11/1914; onboard the ‘SS Pera’ at departure was 90 soldiers, 6 nurses and 391 horses.
On the 19/10/1917 the ‘SS Pera’ was torpedoed and sunk in Mediterranean Sea.

Keywords

Place made

Gallipoli, Turkey

Year

c. 1915

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance