Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Cecil Howard Perkins) good very fine £80-£120

Cecil Howard Perkins was born in 1896, the son of Mr C. W. Perkins (the city Organist of Birmingham) of 25 Edgbaston House, Broad Street, Birmingham. He was educated at the Priory, Malvern and King Edward’s School, and employed in the Birmingham City Treasurer’s Department. Perkins enlisted as a Corporal in the 16th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment in November 1914, and was commissioned Temporary Second Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Regiment in September 1915. He served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion (entitled to Great War pair), and was killed in action whilst attached to the 21st Light Trench Mortar Battery on the Western Front, 22 July 1918.

Lieutenant Perkins is buried in Les Baraques Military Cemetery, Sangatte, Pas de Calais, France. He is also commemorated on a memorial in Birmingham City Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham.

Sold with portrait photograph of recipient in uniform.