WORDSLEY - WEST MIDLANDS
Holy Trinity Church
Holy Trinity Church
Corporal Frederick PERKINS 787
Born: Stourbeidge, Worcestershire, England Enlisted: 15-9-1914, Randwick, New South Wales Occupation prior to Enlistment: Engine Driver 3rd Battalion Australian Infantry Killed in Action 3-7-1916, France aged 21years Son of George and Harriet Perkins, of Sawyer's Gully, New South Wales. Resting: Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Bethune, Nord Pas de Calais, France Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 38 |
Newcastle Morning Herald & Miner's Advocate (N.S.W.) 28-7-1916
Mr. GEORGE and Mrs. H. PERKINS and FAMILY, of Cessnock-street, Kurri Kurri, desire to THANK all sympathisers in their sad bereavement, through the loss of their son, Corporal Fred Perkins, killed in action in France
Mr. GEORGE and Mrs. H. PERKINS and FAMILY, of Cessnock-street, Kurri Kurri, desire to THANK all sympathisers in their sad bereavement, through the loss of their son, Corporal Fred Perkins, killed in action in France
Newcastle Morning Herald & Miner's Advocate (N.S.W.) 21-9-1916
KURRI KURRI.
Mrs. Perkins, of Kurri Kurri has received the following letter from Regimental Sergeant-major S. Rudkin, dated July 17, from "Somewhere over here"
On behalf of the battalion I wish to convey to yourself and family our profound sympathy in the sad loss of your dear boy,Corporal Fred Perkins. For myself I knew the lad since he has been with us, and always held a high opinion of him. I thought the world of him, and can quite realise what a loss It will be to you. He died a brave lad, ahead of the firing line in a listening post in a dangerous and responsible part. It will no doubt be a
comfort to you to know that he died with out suffering. The lad was very popular with us, and died as he lived, as straight as a die, and a man. Thank you for giving to the country such a man. May the Lord above console and comfort you. I am looking forward to seeing you and talking it all over, as a fellow is not much good in writing. We shall avenge all our dear boys before we return to Australia.
KURRI KURRI.
Mrs. Perkins, of Kurri Kurri has received the following letter from Regimental Sergeant-major S. Rudkin, dated July 17, from "Somewhere over here"
On behalf of the battalion I wish to convey to yourself and family our profound sympathy in the sad loss of your dear boy,Corporal Fred Perkins. For myself I knew the lad since he has been with us, and always held a high opinion of him. I thought the world of him, and can quite realise what a loss It will be to you. He died a brave lad, ahead of the firing line in a listening post in a dangerous and responsible part. It will no doubt be a
comfort to you to know that he died with out suffering. The lad was very popular with us, and died as he lived, as straight as a die, and a man. Thank you for giving to the country such a man. May the Lord above console and comfort you. I am looking forward to seeing you and talking it all over, as a fellow is not much good in writing. We shall avenge all our dear boys before we return to Australia.