Name
Brian Perry
17 May 1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/08/1915
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
1937
Inns of Court Officer Training Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GREAT BERKHAMSTED (ST. PETER) CHURCH CEMETERY
Terrace (South).
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, Berkhamsted Collegiate School, Berkhamsted, Lord William's School Memorial, Thame, Oxfordshire
Pre War
Brian Perry was born on 17 May 1897 in Enfield, the son of Richard Henry Perry and Rose Cross Perry and was baptised on 27 August 1897 at Jesus Church, Enfield. (Siblings Ralph, Fanny, Richard and Donovan were all baptised on the same day). He was one of seven children.
At that time they were living at Forty Hill and his father was working as a lithographer. He was one of seven children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Forty Hill. where his father was working as a printer. He attended Lord William's Grammar School , Thame, where he won the School Championship Cup. He later attended Berkhamsted School, leaving in 1910.
By 1911, when he was 13, he was listed as a boarder at the home of widow Cecilia May at 19 Seaview Avenue, Seaview Road, Liscard, Cheshire. and was working as a printer's apprentice. His parents had then moved to Oaklands, Cross Oak Road, Berkhamsted
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war he joined the Middlesex Regiment in 1914 and was accepted into the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps on 22 October 1914. He received rapid promotion to Sergeant and showed promise of becoming a first class cavalry officer.
In June 1915 Brian contracted meningitis on a camp and became seriously ill. He died on 18 August 1915, aged 18 at the 3rd London General Hospital in Wandsworth, London and was buried in Great Berkhamsted (St Peter) Church Cemetery in a full military funeral, even though he had not seen active service.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £6 and pay owing of £14 12s 2d.
Brother to Donovan Perry who served as Lieutenant with the Hertfordshire Regiment and was killed in action on 22 March 1918 and Sergeant Ralph Baker Perry who died from epilepsy on 20 August 1920, aged 25.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, thameremembers.org.uk, www.iwm.org.uk
