Arthur Ernest RAYMOND

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RAYMOND, Arthur Ernest

Service Number:	899
Enlisted:	8 January 1902, National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier attestation paper.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse
Born:	Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, 15 June 1879
Home Town:	Cunnamulla, Paroo, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Stockman
Died:	Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 19 June 1956, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW Columbarium- JD Wall
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 899, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse
8 Jan 1902:	Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 899, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier attestation paper.
18 Feb 1902:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 899, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 522 notes 1st BACH embarked at Sydney 18 Feb 1902 aboard Custodian.
19 Aug 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 899, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 522 notes 1st BACH embarked at Durban 11 Jul 1902 aboard Drayton Grange returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 13 Aug 1902, disbanded 19 Aug 1902.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Arthur Ernest Raymond served twice in the South African (Boer) War, first as a Private S.N. 80 in the 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, second as a Private S.N. 899 in the 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse. He also served again in WW1 as a Corporal S.N. 191 in the 7th Light Horse Regiment AIF during which he was wounded at Gallipoli in 1915.

Arthur Ernest Raymond was born in Maryborough, Queensland on 15 Jun 1879, a son to George Raymond and Ellen Raymond nee Galpin. He married Sarah Petronella Lombard on 13 Dec 1911 in Queensland. They were residing in Queensland when their first child was born in 1911 but had relocated to Sydney residing in the Paddington area when he enlisted in 1914. On his return from WW1 they had a further 3 children between 1917 and 1921 while residing in the Paddington and Canterbury districts. Arthur died at the Concord repatriation hospital in 1956 and his wife Sarah passed away at home in Willoughby in 1966.

(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 481 and 524, National Archives Australia - Boer War Dossier and WW1 services records; BDM Registeries Qld and NSW; ADFA-AIF Project entry).

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