BORN HULL 1892. SON OF ARTHUR SEPTIMUS PERRY (1873-1923) & HARRIET DAWSON (1873-1926), OF 81 HESSLE ROAD, HULL.
HE MARRIED IN JULY 1914. HIS WIFE ISABELA PERRY (1897-1994), LIVED AT 15 CLEO TERRACE, WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL. PRIVATE, PERRY WAS CALLED UP AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR, BEING ONE OF THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGULARS. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED FOR WRAY BROTHERS, CORN DEALERS AT CAROLINE PLACE, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS, AT GALLIPOLI. HE WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED IN FRANCE, ON 05/09/1916, AND DIED OF WOUNDS, THE SAME DAY. HE WAS 23 AND LEFT A WIDOW AND ONE DAUGHTER, NORA. THEY MOVED TO 19, HANNAH’S TERRACE, DALTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE IS LISTED ON HULL’S WALKER STREET WW1 MEMORIAL & ON THE SPENCER STREET ROLLS OF HONOUR- (PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 01/12/16). HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 15TH SEPTEMBER 1916.*
HE IS BURIED AT WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS BROTHERS AND COUSIN ALSO DIED IN THE WAR
STOKER, ARTHUR WILLIAM PERRY, RN – 26/12/1918, AGED 21.
PTE, JOHN THOMAS PERRY, 6TH EYR – 6/09/1916, AGED 24.
PTE, HAROLD JAMES PERRY, 19TH MIDDLESEX, – 7/10/1918, AGED 19.
PTE, JOHN WILLIAM O’NEIL, EYR – 3/05/1917, AGED 20, COUSIN OF THE ABOVE.
THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED ON THE FAMILY GRAVE AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.
