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‘Continuous Certificate of Discharge’ Service Book of Raymond Parker WARBURTON

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Cartwright & Rattray Ltd

1915

Overview

Continuous Certificate of Discharge service book issued to Raymond Parker WARBURTON. Black hard cover book with 26 pages. Cover shows in gold an encircled “Board of Trade” logo, topped with royal crown, underneath a rectangle shaped cut out of the hard cover revealing the seaman’s name, ‘WARBURTON’, which is handwritten in red ink. And beneath embossed in gold lettering “No. 882058” / “Continuous / Certificate of Discharge”. Page 26 has a black and white portrait photograph affixed of WARBURTON in seaman’s uniform, with a blue oval shaped stamp of “M.M. Office / Mar, 1918 / Tilbury”, stamped across top right corner of photograph.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-12-2025.2.2

Item type

Books (Statistical)

Themes

War and Conflict > World War 1

Material

Cardboard

Writing Paper

Width

115 mm

Height or length

170 mm

Depth

8 mm

Weight

95 g

Contextual information

This “Continuous Certificates of Discharge”, service book was issued to Raymond Parker WARBURTON whilst he was a Merchant Seaman serving on ‘H.M.T. Pera’ and ‘SS Shropshire’, during the First World War. The first entry shows Raymond registered for duty in London on the 01/12/1915, aboard ‘HMT Pera’ as an Electrician. The Pera was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea on the 19/10/1917. Raymond later transferred to the ship, ‘SS Shropshire’ on the 19/12/1917. The last entry details Raymond’s discharge on the 13/06/1919 at Sydney, Australia.

Keywords

1st World War

Merchant Marine Officer

First World War

First Convoy

Place made

Hyde, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

Year

1915

Primary significance criteria

Scientific or research significance

Social or spiritual significance