Name
Benjamin Lewis Perry
1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1915
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Monmouthshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 50.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Family grave, Rogiet, Monmouthshire
Pre War
Benjamin Lewis Perry was born in 1879 in Tidenham, Gloucestershire, the son of Benjamin and Mary Perry and one of four children.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at Pill House, Tidenham, where his father was a farmer of 269 acres employing 5 men and 1 boy. They remained in Tidenham in 1891 but had moved to Ifton, Westmoreland by 1901 at which time his father was a quarry owner and Benjamin was working as a grain merchant.
He married Elizabeth Flexman on 18 June 1908 at All Saints Church, Elm Grove, Ealing, Middlesex, giving his occupation as a corn merchant and his residence as Maindee, Monmouth. Their son Benjamin Richard Perry was born in 1909 in Newport, Monmouthshire and on the 1911 Census they were living at The Anchorage, St John's Road, Newport. Benjamin continued to work as a corn merchant and they also employed two domestic servants.
Wartime Service
He served as Captain in France from 15 February 1915 with the 1st Battalion Territorial Force of the Monmouthshire Regiment.
He was killed in action at Zonnebeke on 26 April 1915, aged 37. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
His widow gave her address on pension records as 72 Cross Oak Road, Berkhamsted.
Pay owing of £85 9s 8d was divided equally between his widow Elizabeth and James Edward Garnons Lawrence Esq.
Probate was obtained by his widow and James Edward Garmons Lawrence, Solicitor, on 27 July 1915 in London with effects of £3782 17s 8d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
