The Diary of Thomas Victor Rayson-Miscellaneous
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Thomas Victor Rayson.
Sto: HMS Falmouth
Official No: K7346.
Gz: J. Schofield [1]
No 37446. Coy: 70.
RGA. Aden
Arabia Egypt
Balkan War Began September
30th 1912
Mother 9th Oct:[2]
Father 14th Jan: [3]
Sister Ethel 20th Dec: [4]
Sister Maud 7th March [5]
Brother H 19th July.[6]
Nellie 20th August [7]
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Pvt: T G Rayson [8]
295 R.A.M.C.
3 or 5 Coy: L.R.B.
British Expeditionary Force
C/O G.P.O.
London
European War Began on
July. 28th 1914
Boer War Began on Sept 19th
1899 & ended on May 18th 1902 [9]
Miss N. Hunt April 1914 [10]
H.M.S. Falmouth
Speed 25 Knots Tonnage 5250
Length 420 Ft: HP. 22000.
Coal 1290 Oil 265.94
2 Spencer Gdns
Will Hall,
Eltham
Kent
This note between these lines has been crossed out
To go on leave on Oct 14th or about that
time Admiral & Capt: to leave ship
with supernumeraries Capt of
Birmingham to take over command
Dorien Smith to be in dock
9 days.
Mrs Bennet
25 Leverton Str:
Kentish Town
NW
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Friday 23rd
v Southampton 2.3
Poole 2[11]
Wednesday 4th
v Gloucester
3.2
Wilson 2[12]Melia 1.[13]
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Falmouth Football Team
July Matches
July 2nd
Yarmouth no match
July 3rd
Galatea 3.1
Wilson [14] Poole [15] Melia [16]
July 5th
Caroline 2.0
Charlton [17] Poole [18]
July 9th
Cordelia 2.0
Rayson Poole [19]
July 23rd
Southampton 2.3
Poole 2[20]
August Matches
Aug 4th
Gloucester 3.2
Wilson 2 [21] Melia
Aug 26th
Galatea 4-0
Poole 3[22]
Melia [23]
Sept 4th
Gloucester 2.0
Melia[24]
Sept 6th
Cordelia no match
Oct 23rd
Royalist 2.5
Rayson Melia [25]
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Jan 11/1/16
Win
Falmouth v Birkenhead
Result 4-1
Rayson 2 Melia[26]Wilson [27]
April 20th
Falmouth V Comus
Result 3 2
Wilson 2 [28] Craig 1 [29]
May 2nd
Falmouth V Birkenhead
lost 1-0
May 19th
Birkenhead, draw 1-1
Tritton ERA [30]
Me absent
Smith hurt
June 15th
Falmouth V Birkenhead
Result 1.1
Scott[31] through his own goal
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Notes
- ↑ Joseph Schofield https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/3925194
- ↑ Mother is Elizabeth Maria Rayson (nee Still) born 09/10/1866
- ↑ Father is Thomas Gurling Rayson born 14/01/1865
- ↑ Sister is Ethel Kathleen Amelia Rayson born 20/12/1892
- ↑ Sister Maud is Violet Maud Rayson born 07/04/1898 not 7th March as written
- ↑ Brother H is Harold Reuben Rayson born 19/07/1904
- ↑ Nellie is Phyllis Ella Hunt born 20/08/1896
- ↑ Thomas Gurling Rayson https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/3670156
- ↑ Both dates are slightly incorrect - reality was 11/10/1899 to 31/05/1902
- ↑ The Miss N Hunt listed on this page is Phyllis Ella Hunt (Nellie from Page 48) who he married on 29/08/1916. Nellie was heavily pregnant when Thomas Victor died on 09/01/1918. Victor Alfred Gurling Rayson was born on 29/03/1918.
- ↑ Poole, Robert Cassels Engine Room Artificer 1st Class 268947
- ↑ Wilson, Arthur Robert Leading Signalman J10579
- ↑ Melia, Michael Anthony Stoker RNR T 3041
- ↑ Wilson, Arthur Robert Leading Signalman J10579
- ↑ Poole, Robert Cassels Engine Room Artificer 1st Class 268947
- ↑ Melia, Michael Anthony Stoker RNR T 3041
- ↑ Charlton, John Henry Petty Officer 211883
- ↑ Poole, Robert Cassels Engine Room Artificer 1st Class 268947
- ↑ Poole, Robert Cassels Engine Room Artificer 1st Class 268947
- ↑ Poole, Robert Cassels Engine Room Artificer 1st Class 268947
- ↑ Wilson, Arthur Robert Leading Signalman J10579
- ↑ Poole, Robert Cassels Engine Room Artificer 1st Class 268947
- ↑ Melia, Michael Anthony Stoker RNR T 3041
- ↑ Melia, Michael Anthony Stoker RNR T 3041
- ↑ Melia, Michael Anthony Stoker RNR T 3041
- ↑ Melia, Michael Anthony Stoker RNR T 3041
- ↑ Wilson, Arthur Robert Leading Signalman J10579
- ↑ Wilson, Arthur Robert Leading Signalman J10579
- ↑ Craig, James Young Private RMLI 16004
- ↑ Tritton, Franklin George Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class M6021
- ↑ Probably either Scott, Herbert Harry Stoker 1st Class K7358 or Scott, James Stoker 1st Class SS109941