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Sgt. William Perkins
British Army 65th Anti Tank Regiment RA The Norfolk Yeomanry
from:Swaffham, Norfolk
William Perkins was born in Swaffham Norfolk in 1916. Swaffham, is a small, rural market town with not much scope for adventure. It was for adventure that in 1934 Billy Perkins joined the local Territorial Army unit the 65th Anti Regiment Royal Artillery (The Kings Own Royal Regiment The Norfolk Yeomanry).
At this time Billy’s unit had 14 pounders pulled by horses. Billy’s younger brother also joined the Norfolk Yeomanry. Both of them very nearly joined the International Brigades to fight against the fascists in the Spanish Civil war. However their Dad Charley, a veteran of the First World War, said “don’t be daft buggars, we’ll be fighting the Germans again soon”.
Billy and Charley’s Dad was right and in 1939 their unit went to France with the BEF. By this time Billy’s unit was mechanised with 2lb Anti Tank guns. As everybody knows that when the fighting did eventually start things went bad for the BEF. Billy and Charley got split up. Charley was eventually evacuated from Dunkirk and Billy was eventually rescued from Bray Dunes by merchant seaman.
After a stint on home defences Billy and Charley went to North Africa with the MEF and both were captured in 1942 during Gazala Line Battles. Billy and Charley remained prisoners of war until liberated in 1945.
Billy was a devoted family man and like many of his peers generally kept his wartime experiences to himself. However his family were and are very proud of him. Billy did have respect for his German adversaries particularly the Afrika Corps and did say that he saw Rommel briefly. However Billy did not have a good word for the Vichy French who he said were a “disgrace” and the Italians who he said mistreated him after he was captured.
Cpl. William Perkins
British Army 2/2 Company Clyde Royal Garrison Artillery
from:39 Stratford Road, West Bridgford, Notts
Dvr James Perks MM
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Anderton
Pte John Perks
Australian Imperial Forces 33rd Btn.
Spr. Joseph John Perks
British Army 82nd Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Walthamstow, London
Joseph Perks enlisted on 12th December 1914. He served with the 82nd Field Company, Royal Engineers. He was wounded on 6th February 1918 and was demobbed on 11th April 1920
Spr. Joseph John Perks
British Army 82nd Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Walthamstow, London
Jack Perks enlisted on the 12th of December 1914, he was wounded on the 6th of February 1918 and demobbed on the 11th of April 1920.
Pte. William Morris Perks
British Army 1/4th Battalion Welsh Regiment
from:Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire
(d.3rd November 1917)
It is believed Willie Perks fell during the Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe on 3rd of November 1917 aged 23. He is buried in Beersheeba War Cemetery, Israel.
Albert Perman
Royal Navy HMS Maori
from:Beeston, Nottingham
Albert Perman's Royal Navy record shows that he was on board HMS Maori when it was sunk in 1915 and he was taken prisoner. He was repatriated in 1918. He also served on HMS Royal Sovereign.
L/Cpl. Percy Perren
British Army Middlesex Regiment
from:N Kensington, London
(d.1st July 1916)
I have a photograph that I think is of my grandfather Percy Perren. I wonder if you could confirm that his uniform is that of his rank and regiment. I would be most grateful as I have always wondered what my grandfather looked like and this photograph has only just been discovered and of course there is no one alive to confirm or deny that this is him. If the uniform is correct that I feel it must be him. I have visited his grave at Gordon dump in France. An incredible experience!
Sgt John Alfred Perrett
British Army 5th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:6 Holmshaw Road, Lower Sydenham, London.
Alf Perrett served with the 5th Royal Fusiliers.
Pte. John Perrie
British Army 1/5th Btn Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Stranraer, Wigtownshire
(d.13th Jul 1915)
John Perrie was just 24, when killed in action during the 2nd battle for the Kereves Dere, Helles, Gallipoli.
Cpl. Alfred C Perrin
British Army 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Stapleford, Hertfordshire
(d.14th Mar 1915)
Alfred Perrin served in the 2nd Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment and died on 14th March 1915. As it is the Centenary of the outbreak of the First World War I am researching the men who made the ultimate sacrifice and are commemorated on the memorial in the Church of St. Mary The Virgin at Stapleford, Herts. I am doing a brief history of each man and where he was in the First World War. Can anyone add any information?
Capt. T. F. Perrin
British Army Inland Water Transport Royal Engineers
(d.24th July 1917)
Captain T.F. Perrin served with Inland Waterways Transport & Docks Company Royal Engineers. He was killed in action on 24th July 1917 and is buried in Basra War cemetery.
Temp/Cpt. Thomas Frederick Perrin
British Army Inland Wtr. Trans. Royal Engineers
(d.24th July 1917)
Temporary Captain Thomas Frederick Perrin. Served with the Inland Water Transport, Royal Engineers.
He died on 24th July 1917 and is buried in Basra War Cemetery, Iraq. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Pte. Albert Joseph Perris
British Army 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry
(d.3rd Nov 1914)
Albert Joseph Perris was born on the 22nd December 1881, his birth being registered in Limerick, Ireland in the 1st quarter of 1882. He was the son of James William and Mary Anne (nee Ahearn). In 1891, aged 9, he was living at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich with his parents (his father being a Barracks Serjeant in the Army Service Corps) and 5 siblings. By 1901 his father had left the Army and was a “Customs Watcher” living with Mary A and 4 children in East London (an additional child being born in 1893). In 1911 his father was a married “In Pensioner” at The Royal Hospital, Chelsea which meant that he had given up his Army pension to live in the Hospital with lodging, meals and medical treatment free while Mary Anne was living in Forest Gate, East London with 3 of their children. The census written by Mary notes that they had 8 children 2 of whom had died. Albert was at The Gordon Boys Home, West End, Surrey in about 1894. The Home, built by public subscription in memory of General Gordon, was a home for waif, strays and children of impoverished families to be taught a trade. It was run on military lines and very many of the boys joined the Army. At Gordon's he was taught to play a musical instrument as he became a musician in the Highland Light Infantry. Aged 13 in 1894 he would have left Gordons in about 1896/7. If it is assumed that he enlisted soon after leaving Gordons he would have completed his 12 years by 1910.
He was a Bandsman in the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry with the Regimental number 6490 when he landed at Boulogne on the 14th August 1914. Therefore, he was still in the Army, or a Reservist, when war was declared. The 2/HLI were in Aldershot and part of 5th Brigade, 2nd Division in early August 1914 and were immediately mobilised.
On the 1st November 1914 the 2nd Division held the left of the British line outside Ypres from Zonnebeke to Polygon Wood with the 1st Division on its right and French Colonial troops on its left. At noon the 2/HLI were withdrawn from the line and placed in Divisional reserve where they remained for some days.
Albert was killed in action on the 3rd November along with with 7 comrades. The Official Record compiled after the war states that the "on the 3rd, 4th and 5th November little change..." although the German Heavy Artillery increased in volume due to additional guns and ammunition. Two of those killed have known graves, with the others including Albert are remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Pte. Thomas Perris
British Arrmy 8th Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Weston, Berkshire.
My late father, Private Thomas Perris, Regimental Number 14355, enlisted in the 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment at Reading on the 7th September 1914. He was wounded at the Battle of Loos in 1915 and returned home to be hospitalised in Bristol.
He recovered and was sent back to the front to join the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment and was again wounded near Arras on the 28th March 1917. He was discharged from Leicester Northern General Hospital on 30th October, 1918. Having survived bullet wounds and losing half of one foot to mustard gas he married, fathered 5 children and went on the live to be 93.
Pte. Charles Henry Perriss
British Army 2nd Battalion Border Regiment
from:Croydon
Pte. A. Perry
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gosforth
A Perry was wounded in 1916
Pte Alfred J. Perry
British Army 13th Battalion Dorset Regiment
from:Weston Super Mare
(d.3rd June 1917)
Alfred Perry was wounded in 1916 at the Somme whilst serving with the 12th (Labour) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. He returned home to recover and in March 1917 joined the 13th (Works) Battalion, Labour Corps in Exeter. He was obviously unfit to serve and was discharged as such on April 23rd 1917. He died from complications arising from his wounds on June 3rd 1917 in Exeter where he was buried. He left a wife Christina and two daughters.
Pte. C. Perry
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
C Perry was discharged in September 1916
Pte. C. H. Perry
British Army 7th Btn. York and Lancastershire Regiment
from:Walsall
(d.17th Aug 1915)
C. Perrry was the son of Mr. and Mrs Perry, of Walsall and husband of Mary Ann Stone (formerly Perry) of 14 St. Quentin St., Pleck, Walsall.
Pte. Eugene Perry
Canadian Expeditionary Force 22nd Btn.
from:Canada
(d.11th April 1917)
Eugene Perry was executed for desertion on 11/04/1917 and buried in Ecoivies Military Cemetery, Mont-St.-Eloi, France.
He is Commemorated on Page 603 of the First World War Book of Remembrance: For Private Eugene Perry, with respect and honour. Son of Germain and Caroline Perry of New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Soldier – born in Boutouche, New Brunswick, Canada April 1st , 1896. A member of the 22nd Canadien Francais Battalion, 5th Brigade, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, Private Eugene Perry was one of twenty-three Canadian volunteer soldiers (and 306 Commonwealth soldiers) who were executed by the British Command in France / Belgium during World War One for desertion or cowardice. Court-martials for men accused of these crimes were often completed in a manner of minutes, with the accused having no legal counsel of any kind, and no means of appeal. Sentences were typically carried out the morning after conviction (often by a firing squad drawn from the convicted mans' own unit, to drive home the lesson of obedience and the consequences of defying orders)
Pte. Frederick Charles Perry
British Army 2/20th Btn. London Regiment
from:Woolwich
My Grandfather Fred Perry was a Private in the 2/20th London Regiment during the whole of the First World War, he had some close shaves but survived. He served in France, Salonika, Palestine & Egypt, some of his early training was done at Braintree in Essex.
I have one of the letters he wrote during the war with a bullet nick at the top of the page where a bullet went through his pack & notepad, it hit the chap next to him, a very close shave. I also have his dog tags & his Christmas tin from the Princess.
His platoon Sergeant was a chap called Heddle Nash who became a famous Opera singer after WW1, Fred told my father that Heddle had a beautiful voice & often sang to the men to keep their spirits up.
Text of Freds letter dated May 4th 1918 :
My Dear Ma, Just a few hurried lines to say that I am quite OK in the pink still. I am very sorry I have been unable to write you a letter for some time but we have been busy so to speak, once again but I have sent off field PC’s which I hope you got alright. Well we had plenty to do just lately, too much in fact. You will be sorry to hear that my pal Arthur Lunn who was wounded in Salonika and has only recently rejoined us has been wounded again but am pleased to say it is a cushy one, poor old chap caught it in the leg again jolly bad luck isn’t it ? Glad to say that Bob Hadlow is quite ok. This is a souvenir piece of writing paper as the mark you see along the top is where a bullet went through my writing pad, in fact it went through my whole pack and spoilt everything inside. Unfortunately the handle of the razor (krupp) which Ken and Dora sent me was broken but still I must think myself jolly lucky I think.
I am glad to say I received your parcel quite safely containing the biscuits, chocolate and condensed milk etc. and thank you ever so much for same, I would have written earlier only have not had the opportunity. I went with a party sight seeing round the old part of Jerusalem about 2 weeks back which was very interesting and made one think. I saw Calvary the spot where the Lord was crucified and also the place where his body was laid afterwards. Also the 6 stations where he rested with the cross leading up to the spot. We went inside the Mosque of OTYAR where they used to hold the sacrifices. While we were going there we met the pilgrimage going to (Nebi Musa) Moses’ Tomb a proper Eastern affair with their symbols and two or three juggling about with swords merrily everybody had some instrument to make a noise with and plenty of banners flying a proper Shemozzle so to speak.
By the way we had a signal office in the monastery by Moses’ Tomb once. Well I have seen some sights and various places since we have been in this part of the country and can say that I have swum in the Jordan not to say the parts of it I have drunk although nearly as muddy as the Thames when one is really thirsty I don’t think there is any doubt as to whether the water is pure or not. It is a wonder we haven’t all had fever. I wouldn’t mind just a little slight touch of malaria now so as to get down to Cairo for a rest again.
Well I hope you are all quite well as we haven’t received a mail lately but are expecting one any time now. How are James and Douglas getting on? As lucky as ever I hope. Please tell Eileen I will be writing her another letter shortly. I must close now so with fondest love to all and best wishes to everybody.
Hoping you are all ok.
I remain your loving son Fred. x
Soldiers playing Football -Salonika, Greece
George Perry
St John Ambulance Brigade HMHS Plassy
from:Halifax
George Perry was a member of the St Johns Ambulance Brigade Association and served on the HMHS Plassy. I have some surgical instruments, photos from the Plassy, and his St John Ambulance Medal, with the number 81442. He apparently ended his life in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The medal also has the Great Central Railway number 705. I am trying to find information, can anyone help?
Rflmn. George Henry Perry
British Army 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Ford, Shrewsbury
(d.1st December 1917)
Pte. H. Perry
British Army 10th Btn. Devonshire Regiment
(d.10th Feb 1917)
Pte H Perry died on the 10th of February 1917 and is buried in the Doiran Military Cemetery in Greece.
Pte. Harry Perry
British Army 5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
Harry Perry was my 92 year old Grandmothers father. He served in the Boer war then enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in WW1. We understand he may have been involved in the sinking of the HMHS, or HMT Donegal off the Southampton coast on the 17th of April 1917, by a German U boat UC21. He survived, but some of his mates didn't. He was a bit naughty and was docked varying amounts of pay on consecutive years from 1915 to 1918 for overstaying his pass on Tattoos held in Southampton and Cowes.
My Nan knows nothing of her family history as they all passed away when she was young. We have sisters and brothers names but nothing for her grandparents. I'm hoping to find a bit more about great granddad Harry. Any help whatsoever would be awesome.
Cpl. Henry Perry
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
Henry Perry enlisted in 1914
Pte. Jabez Perry
British Army 6th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Goldthorpe, S.Yorkshire
(d.24th Jul 1916)
My Uncle, Jabez Perry was born in Normanton W.Yorkshire in 1893. He had 3 brothers and 3 sisters. Around 1911/12 the family moved to Goldthorpe S.Yorkshire where the father & 3 sons worked in the Mines. Jabez met a local girl, Gertrude Neal. They fell in love and married in 1913. In the same year they were blessed with a son Albert. Gertrude was 17 years old.
In 1914, as did many young men in the area, Jabez answered Kitchener's call and joined the 6th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. The only picture I have must have been taken shortly before he left his home in 1914. The picture shows Jabez with his wife Gertrude and their son Albert.
Jabez was killed on 24th July 1916 and is buried in Arras France at Avesnes-le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension. His widow, Gertrude, died in 1918 of the Spanish Flu. Therefore, young Albert was left an orphan at 5 years of age and was, presumably, brought up by his Grandmother, Catherine Neal. I have located the grave of Gertrude in which her mother and father are also buried. This to me is a sad, sad story. My father was born in 1910, also in Normanton.
Editor's Note - At the time of his death, the 6th Battalion K.O.Y.L.I. who were part of the 14th Division, were engaged in the Battle of Delville Wood, a phase of the Battle of the Somme.
Pte. James Francis Perry
British Army 10th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Bristol
(d.11th September 1916)
James Perry was killed at the Battle of the Somme (died of wounds). I have his medals.
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