BORN HULL 08/12/1894. SON OF ARTHUR SEPTIMUS PERRY (1873-1923) & HARRIET DAWSON (1873-1926), OF 81 HESSLE ROAD, HULL (CWGC & NAVY ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. ENLISTED IN ROYAL NAVY ON 17/11/1913. SERVED AS ACTING LEADING STOKER, ON HMS “VIVID”. DIED OF BRONCHIAL PNEUMONIA, AT HULL’S NAVY HOSPITAL ON 26/12/1918. JUST TWO WEEKS AFTER HIS 24TH BIRTHDAY. BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
HIS TWO BROTHERS JOHN & HAROLD WERE ALSO KILLED. ALL ARE LISTED ON HULL’S WALKER STREET, WW1 MEMORIAL.
STOKER, ARTHUR WILLIAM PERRY, RN – 26/12/1918, AGED 24.
PTE, JOHN THOMAS PERRY, 6TH EYR – 06/09/1916, AGED 24.
PTE, HAROLD JAMES PERRY, 19TH MIDDLESEX, – 07/10/1918, AGED 19.
PTE, JOHN WILLIAM O’NEIL, EYR – 03/05/1917, AGED 20, COUSIN OF THE ABOVE.
THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED ON THE FAMILY GRAVE AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
