PERRY, Charles
| Service Number: | 2668 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Great Eastern, County of Cumberland, England, 26 July 1888 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 7 November 1917, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Tempe Newtown Tramway Depot Honour Roll, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 2668, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 2668, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 24 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2668, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to back and chest. Admitted to No. 9 General Hospital at Rouen. Went to England via Havre on the hospital ship "Salta". Admitted to First Southern General Hospital. | |
| 25 Jul 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 7 Nov 1917: | Involvement Corporal, 2668, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2668 awm_unit: 2 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-11-07 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Charles PERRY (Service Number 2668) was born on 26th July 1888 near the town of Great Eastern in the County of Essex, England. He worked as a casual conductor on Sydney trams from 25th September 1909. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 31st July 1915. Perry had already enlisted at Liverpool a few weeks earlier. He was married to Maude Alice, whom he nominated as his next of kin. They lived in Darlington. Perry claimed previous military service of two years with the Territorials in Hertfordshire, and two months with the Tramway Rifle Reserve in Sydney.
He was allotted to the 8th Reinforcements to the 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion. Perry embarked HMAT ‘Runic’ at Sydney on 9th August 1915. By 4th November he was taken on the strength of the Battalion on Gallipoli, where he served until the evacuation at the end of December and returned to Alexandria (Egypt). After the Australian Battalions had regrouped and been reinforced in Egypt they moved to the Western Front in France through Alexandria and Marseilles, where Perry passed on 28th March 1916. In May he was sent to the Divisional Bombing School.
He was wounded in action on 24th July with a gunshot to his back and chest. This required admission to the No. 9 General Hospital at Rouen and evacuation to England through Havre on the Hospital Ship ‘Salta’. Only four days after the incident he was in the 1st Southern General Hospital.
On 28th August he proceeded on furlough and on 5th October re-joined his Battalion in France. Three weeks later he was promoted to Lance Corporal.
In April 1917 he was hospitalised again with Trench Fever and PUO (Pyrexia [fever] of Unknown Origin). He passed through the 7th Field Ambulance, the 2nd Australian Divisional Rest Station, No. 3 Stationary Hospital and No. 2 Convalescent Depot.
On 24th April he was in No. 24 General Hospital with mumps. He did not re-join the 2nd Battalion until 19th May, and then was sent to the Corps School of Instruction.
On 25th July Perry was promoted to Corporal. In September he was sent to the Reinforcement Camp. In October he was admitted to the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance with a carbuncle. This led to another sequence of medical units – 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station; No. 12 General Hospital; and No. 2 Convalescent Depot before he re-joined the 2nd Battalion on 4th November 1917.
Three days later he was killed in action. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.
Pensions were granted to his wife Maud Alice (£2-12-3 per fortnight) and child James Arthur (£1 per fortnight).
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board