PERKINS, William Henry
| Service Number: | 1432 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Inverell, Inverell, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway porter |
| Died: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 4 March 1946, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-53. 130. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1432, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1432, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1432, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 24 Apr 1921: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 1432, 34th Infantry Battalion, Medically discharged, amputated right leg, wounding |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
79 years ago today, on the Tuesday morning of the 5th March 1946, Corporal William Henry Perkins, 34th Battalion (Reg No-1432), railway porter from Inverell, New South Wales and 27 Janet Street, Merewether, N.S.W., father of four (William, Marie, Nancy & Yvonne), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 52. CATHOLIC 2-53. 130.
Born at Billinudgel, (Murwillumbah) New South Wales on the ? ? 1893 to William Henry, died 4.8.1914, Drummoyne, N.S.W., age?, buried at Field of Mars Cemetery, N.S.W., and Elizabeth Ann Perkins, died 28.7.1915, Inverell, N.S.W., age 44, sleeping at Inverell Cemetery, N.S.W., mother of 5 girls, 1 boy; husband of Annie Catherine Perkins nee Wilkinson, born 1893, married 1922, Merewether, N.S.W., died 21.7.1969, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 76, mother of 3, sleeping here, William enlisted on the 31st January 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Wounded in action - 12.10.1917 (GSW right thigh, fractured femur, 1st Battle of Passchendaele).
Embarked for England 5.2.1918 and admitted to the 1st London General Hospital.
Amputated right thigh, no information or date given.
Commenced return to Australia 30.6.1918.
William arrived home invalided on the 3rd September 1918, not being discharged until the 24th April 1921.
Mr. Perkins’s name has been inscribed on the William Allen Memorial. Name not inscribed on the NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at William’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 4/3/1946.
Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Brother-in-law to Corporal Vincent Brown Wilkinson M.M., also known as Wilko, born Teralba, New South Wales 17.6.1897, apprentice electrical engineer (Newcastle City Council), from Dudley Public School, New South Wales, enlisted 27.1.1916, 34th Battalion, Signaller, Reg No-1434, KIA 14.10.1917, 1st Battle of Passchendaele, age 20 years 4 months, name has been inscribed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium, awaiting memorialisation at the gravesite of sister Annie Catherine Perkins, CATHOLIC 2-53. 132.
Many thanks to Granddaughter Margaret-Mary Spencer for the family history.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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