Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Private M. Perry, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Royal Engineers
1914 Star (9507 Pte. M. Perry. 2/A. & S. Highrs.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (9507 Pte. M. Perry. A. & S. Highrs.) edge bruising, nearly very fine

Four: Attributed to Corporal R. Perry, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 9th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, who landed behind enemy lines in Normandy on D-Day, and died the same day, 6 June 1944
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (6) £140-£180

Matthew Perry attested for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 August 1914. He transferred to the Royal Engineers on 10 August 1915, and subsequently served with 173 Company at home.

Robert Perry attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps, and served during the Second World War as a Corporal attached to 9th Battalion, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps. He ‘landed behind the enemy lines in Normandy on D-Day. Later that day he was seen tending the wounded - then he vanished. His last words to his mother, Mrs. Mary Perry, of Easterhill Place, Glasgow, were: “If anything appears to happen, remember I’m an old soldier- I’ll come back.”
“I keep praying for the safe return of that 21-year ‘old soldier’,” says Mrs. Perry.’ (newspaper cutting included with lot, containing a photograph of the recipient, refers).

Perry’s body was subsequently recovered, and he is buried in Pont-Audemer Communal Cemetery, France.