LORD, Raymond Sylvester
| Service Number: | 1198 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 February 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cargo, New South Wales, Australia, February 1890 |
| Home Town: | Orange, Orange Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storekeeper and railway construction worker |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 15 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cumnock Public School HR, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Parkes District Roll of Honor, Wallerawang War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1198, 18th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1198, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1198, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 22 Aug 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1198, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Sniper's bullet wound to thigh. Went to 3rd London General Hospital Wandsworth via Mudros (on the Greek island of Lemnos) and Malta. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Raymond Sylvester LORD (Service Number 1198) was born in Cargo, NSW, about February 1890. He worked on the Coxs River to Sodwalls Railway Duplion.
He enlisted at Liverpool on 16th February 1915 and gave his father living at Parkes as his next of kin.
Lord embarked HMAT ‘Ceramic’ at Sydney on 25th June 1915. He was wounded at Gallipoli on 22nd August. He was admitted to the 16th Casualty Clearing Station with "a bomb (in later terms hand grenade)" wound to his legs. He was transferred to the force’s advance base at Mudros, and then to Malta where the injury was described as a gun shot wound to the side. His file contains a doctor’s sketch of the exit and entry points, and path through his upper thigh and buttock of what was by that stage realised to be a sniper’s bullet. He was invalided to England and admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth in September 1915. He returned to Egypt in January 1916 at the same time as the bulk of the troops from Gallipoli were reaching that place after the general evacuation in December 1915. The Australian units were regrouping in Egypt before proceeding to France. Lord embarked at Alexandria on 18th March, and reached Marseilles a week later.
In June, somewhere in France, he was Absent Without Leave for 35 hours. For this offence received 168 hours Field Punishment No. 2, and the forfeiture of 10 days pay. In August he was wounded on a second occasion, this time by a shrapnel wound to his left hand. He passed through the 2nd Field Ambulance, the 44th Casualty Clearing Station to the 8th General Hospital at Rouen. Here the wound was described as being to the fingers rather than the hand. After treatment and a couple of weeks in a convalescent depot he marched in to the 2nd Australian Division Base Depot at Etaples, and then to his unit in the field.
He was wounded on a third occasion on 15th November 1916. Although he reached the 4th Australian Casualty Clearing Station, he died there on the same day from multiple shrapnel wounds.
He was buried at Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, ¾ mile NE of Montauban, two miles N of Maricourt & 6½ miles N of Albert, France.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board