PERKINS, Harold Claude Albert
| Service Number: | 13881 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 September 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 300th Company Mechanical Transport |
| Born: | North Carlton, Victoria, Australia, April 1893 |
| Home Town: | Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wood Carver |
| Died: | Bronchio-Pneumonia-Influenza, 20th Canadian Clearing station, Charleroi, Belgium, 26 February 1919 |
| Cemetery: |
Charleroi Communal Cemetery Row J, Grave No. 10 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Yarram WW1 War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 13881, 300th Company Mechanical Transport | |
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| 16 Dec 1916: | Involvement 13881, 300th Company Mechanical Transport, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Dec 1916: | Embarked 13881, 300th Company Mechanical Transport, HMAT Berrima, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From In Memory Of
In Memory Of Driver Harold Claude Albert Perkins, 4th Division Motor Transport Company of Yarram, Victoria.
The son of George and Eda J Perkins of Carlton, Victoria.
He was a furniture salesman prior to his enlistment on the 8th of April 1916.
Driver Perkins embarked from Adelaide on board HMAT Berrima on the 16th of December 1916.
Sadly, he survived the war, but died of the Spanish Flu on the 26th of February 1919, aged 21 years.
I have read that the Spanish Flu was very prevalent at that time amongst the soldiers.
Driver Perkins is buried at the Charleroi Communal Cemetery in Belgium.
I cannot find any record of how many Australian soldiers died of the Spanish Flu after the war, but most Australian troops who succumbed to disease during the war, died from respiratory tract infections – commonly influenza and pneumonia. Combined, they claimed some 3,300 Australian lives during the war, and many more were debilitated by the effects long afterwards.
Lest We Forget.
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