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Handwritten Letter From Raymond Parker WARBURTON to Captain VALLINGS

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Raymond WARBURTON

Overview

One page handwritten letter from Raymond Parker WARBUTON to Captain Vallings, in respect to Raymond's application for a war pension. Letter written in blue ink on white lined paper.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2025.2.22

Item type

Letters

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 1

Material

Writing Paper

Width

202 mm

Height or length

254 mm

Weight

3 g

Transcripts

“88 Macpherson St / Cremorne 2090 / dear Captain Vallings / Please accept my thanks / for your efforts on my behalf in / regards to a pension for my services / on HMAT Pera & Shropshire but I regret / to learn that I do not seem to qualify / I am now therefore submitting further reasons which may enable me to qualify for a pension / on 20 August 1915 I had the misfortune to fall from the tween deck to the toolbox / of the hold due to a faulty hand rail / giving way spraining my ankle severely / the ships Doctor bound it up on / Wednesday 8th Sept the Doctor found that / I had developed a hernia as a result of / my fall and advised me to go home / to Sydney for medical attention as / a result I had an operation at a private / hospital by Dr Sherlow & Archdale and / although in a very weak condition I was / able to rejoin the ship again when it came / to Sydney Trusting this will receive”
On the rear, “I have been able to furnish these / details owing due to the fact that / I kept diaries during the war / years”

Contextual information

The letter written by Raymond Parker WARBURTON is providing details of an injury he sustained in a fall on the HMAT Pera on the 20/08/1915. The injury, a severely sprained ankle and later a resulting hernia is offered as further support of his request for a war pension, which had previously been rejected.
Raymond 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. The HMAT Pera was part of the first convoy to depart from King George Sound, Albany Western Australia, on the 1st November 1914. Onboard was 90 soldiers, 6 nurses and 391 horses. The Pera was torpedoed and sunk on the 19/10/1917, and later Raymond was transferred unto the ship, ‘SS Shropshire’. Raymond was discharged on the 13/06/1919 at Sydney, Australia. With the outbreak of the Second World War Raymond, aged 50 years enlisted for war service in May 1941, with the Voluntary Defense Corps, 7th Battalion. His Army number, N318240.

Keywords

War Service Pension

HMT Pera

First World War

Place made

Cremorne, NSW, Australia

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