Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel E. R. Perkins, Royal Signals

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., Territorial, the reverse officially dated ‘1945’, generally good very fine (5) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards for the 1939-45 War.

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Eric Ronald Perkins, who was born in August 1905, was a pre-war Territorial in the Royal Signals who attained the substantive rank of Captain in December 1938. Having served as Adjutant of 3 Corps Signals in the B.E.F. in 1940, he was embarked for the Middle East in May 1941, where he served as a Staff Officer in 10 Corps until June 1942, and gained advancement to Temporary Major. Remaining in the same theatre of war, he next served as O.C. 3 Company, 9th Army Signals, and as 2nd-in-command 4th and 6th Lines of Communication Signals, prior to gaining advancement to Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1944, about which time he was appointed C.S.O., Tripolitania Area. Demobilised in August 1945, Perkins was placed on the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, and finally retired in August 1955; sold with a file of original documentation, including the recipient’s Officer’s Record of Service (Army Book 439); War Office letters (3), the first forwarding his Efficiency Decoration, dated 27 November 1946, another confirming his appointment to the Honorary Rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, dated 1 September 1945, and the last his retirement from the Territorial Reserve of Officers List, dated 4 August 1955; and much besides, not least the map he used during the evacuation of Dunkirk (his ink inscription confirms).