Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: 2nd Lieutenant F. B. Perry, Machine Gun Corps, who was killed in action in April 1918

1914-15 Star (2986 Pte. F. B. Perry, 28-Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. F. B. Perry), good very fine (3) £250-300

Frank Burgess Perry, who was born in April 1895, enlisted in the 28th Battalion, London Regiment (The Artists Rifles) in November 1914 and went out to France in March 1915. And he remained similarly employed until returning home to attend the M.G.C. Cadet School in June 1917. Duly commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant at the end of the same year, he returned to France and was killed in action at Glisy on 24 April 1918, aged 23 years, while serving in the 58th Battalion, M.G.C. The son of Burgess and Ellen Parry of Fordwych Road, Brondesbury, London, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres memorial.