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Receipts for Balances of Wages. 'Vol 1. Cleopatra and Australian No 1. Officers'...
Catalogue reference: WO 28/210
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This record is about the Receipts for Balances of Wages. 'Vol 1. Cleopatra and Australian No 1. Officers'... dating from 1856 May 10-1857 Aug 20 in the series War Office: Records of Military Headquarters. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 28/210
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1856 May 10-1857 Aug 20
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Receipts for Balances of Wages.
- 'Vol 1. Cleopatra and Australian No 1. Officers' Receipts'.
- A book of pre-printed statements of accounts and receipts for the balances of wages due to men of the Army Works Corps on the termination of their service.
- These give the man's name, his number in the pay register, the amount paid and date, the man's signature or mark, and the name of the vessel in which he returned home. The men in this volume returned on the 'Australian' (19 May 1856) or the SS 'Cleopatra' (10 May 1856). In a number of cases the man's trade is also given.
- A number of loose receipts have been bound into the rear of the volume.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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War Office: Records of Military Headquarters
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