Private Walter Charles Perkins
1st Battalion, Royal Berkshires
17/05/1915
Second son of the late Colour Sergeant & Mrs Lucy
Mary Perkins of Reading.
One of two brothers who both fell. Also served in India.
Killed in action, aged 30 years.
NEWS ITEM in Jersey
Evening Post of Monday 5 July 1915
Roll of Honour. Yet another well known
name has to be added to the Roll of Honour, that of
Private Walter Perkins of the 2nd Royal Berkshire Regiment
who was killed in action on 9 May. The deceased who
was the second son of Company Sergeant Perkins of Pier
Road has been in the Army several years. His father,
though well past the age limit, volunteered for service
at the outbreak of war and rejoined his old regiment,
the Royal Berkshires, and did good service before he
unfortunately caught a chill and succumbed from pneumonia.
To Mrs Perkins and the family who now reside in England
we would tender our sincere sympathy.
