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Page A G Pte 7285

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Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Standing, back row centre, with his kitbag on his shoulder is 7285 Pte Arthur George Page, of

Moonee Ponds, Vic, prior to boarding the Ballarat. http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/PB0202

Page A G Pte 7285 Arthur George 8 Inf Bn 25 Cabinet maker Married Cong

Address: Moonee Ponds, Ngarveno St, 4

Next of Kin: Page, D, Mrs, wife, 3 Wanalta Tce, Mt Alexander Rd, Flemington

Enlisted: 27 Oct 1916

Embarked: A70 Ballarat 19 Feb 1917 torpedoed

The transport HMAT Ballarat after being torpedoed by a German submarine off the

southern English coast on 25 Apr 1917. In the background a British destroyer is

standing by to take the troops. http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/C01592 AWM Collection.

THE S.S. "BALL[ARAT]"

The following letter, with .... the sinking of the Australian .... Ballarat taken from a ..... written by Private A. G [Page, Ngar-]veno street, Moonee Ponds England. Private Page ..... this district in connection [with] cricket and football teams.

"I have safely arrived in .... have to thank God I am ..... had rather an eventful trip... up, ere we reached land, by .... sent to the bottom. Our ship .... any rate, and we were brought ..... [des]stroyers. What a difference! ... travelling at about nine knots ... days and days, but the destroyer.. us in at 27 knots, and it was ... I assure you I know there .... now, as never before, and .... experience is not one looked .... big event in one's life, and ... will be long remembered by [all] the boys aboard. I had a l[etter] (not quite finished) to you, ... you will find the latter half [I ex-]pect a fish has read the other now. I was writing away a.... heard a scamper up on deck and .. a boat parade I commenced ... any papers and your letter, wh[ich...] up they went in the air, and ..... The remaining portion of ... thought might have some p.... est. That is why I send it."

The London "Times" mentions [Lieut] E. J. Kernan* was about to step ... the last boats to leave the .... noticed a private beside him. [He ] said: "I'll find another place, ... else." Lieut. Kernan, who is [the son of] Mr. John Kernan, of "Merai", ...was afterwards taken off the .... a destroyer.

THE S.S. "BALL[?]. (1917, July 5). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 2 Edition: Morning. Retrieved May 18, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74603052

* NOTE: Lieutenant Edward Joseph Kernan of Pascoe Vale.

Sig. A. Page, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ch... Page, of Ngarveno street, Moonee Ponds, has been admitted to the Lord Derby War Hospital, Warrington, England, suffering from a gunshot wound in the right thigh. He is the husband of Mrs. Arthur Page Jun., of Malvern, and was attached to the [8th] Battalion, sailing on the troopship "Ballarat," on 19th February, 1917.

ROLL OF HONOR. (1918, September 26). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 3 Edition: Morning. Retrieved August 26, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74607172