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My wife and I visited Percy Ramsay's grave in 2007. In the graves registration book, kept at Beacon Cemetery, we noticed his address as Yarmara, Princhester Street. West End, Brisbane. Sadly this is a misprint, possibly happening when all details were hand written.
The house was called Yasmara. It still remains now at 31 Princhester Street West End.
Yasmara is A Ramsay spelt backwards. Alice Ramsay was Percy Ramsay's mother.

There was a second house called Yasmara in West End. It is in Victoria Street.
It was the home of my Great Aunt Maud and her husband. She married later in life
and called her house Yasmara as her full maiden name was Alice Maud Ramsay. She was Percy's older sister, born 11th June 1886.

Both houses are no longer in the Ramsay family.

Percy was the youngest of three brothers. His oldest brother, James William Ramsay, S/N 333, was a veteran of the Second Boer War (1899-1901). His elder brother, Ernest Edward Ramsay, S/N 954 also signed up in 1916 and served in France with the 41st Battalion.
Percy had worked as a Carter in Brisbane before enlisting on 28 Feb 1916. He served as No 1 Lewis gunner with C Company of the 25th Battalion.
Embarked for the war from Brisbane on HMAT A50 Itonus on 8th August 1916.
After training in England he went to France on the SS Princess Clementine on 16th January 1917.
Was hospitalised with "trench fever" on 2 June 1917 and returned to duty on 24th June 1917.
Listed as "wounded" on 6th November but had been gassed. Returned to England and sent to the 1st Southern General Hospital in Birmingham. Visited there by his brother Ernest. Rejoined his unit on 8th May 1918.
On 10th June 1918 his unit was lined up before dawn in what would become known as the Battle of Morlancourt. As they moved off an artillery shell exploded behind them and he was hit by shrapnel. Friends stopped(details found in Red Cross reports) to aid him but he passed away within minutes. He was 29 years old.
Buried in Beacon Cemetery, Sailly Laurette, France