Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private R. W. Perkins, Royal West Surrey Regiment, Later Royal Fusiliers, who was killed in action during the Battle of the Scarpe, 23 April 1917

British War and Victory Medals (39305 Pte. R. W. Perkins. The Queen's R.); Memorial Plaque (Raymond Perkins), extremely fine (3) £100-140

Raymond William Perkins was born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, in February 1861 and served with the Royal West Surrey Regiment and later the 7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 23 April 1917, during the Battle of the Scarpe, where the 7th Battalion were engaged in the Capture of Gavrelle, 'The 190th Brigade captured the first objective, but the 7/Royal Fusiliers, held up by uncut wire and fire from the open left flank, made only a small lodgement in it'.

Perkins has no known grave and is commemorated upon the Arras Memorial, France.

Sold with the recipient's British United Order of Odd Fellows Executive Council Badge of Office, white metal, mounted for neck wear on embroidered riband; and two portrait photographs.