Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: John (AKA Jack) Joseph Perkins
Ancestor's date of birth: 1873
Ancestor's date of death: 1957
Cause of Death: Leukemia
Service Number: 140
Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Clermont
Unit: 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: 01/06/1900
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No record of post war service.
Murray Page: 482
Contingent: Fourth Queensland
Ship: Manchester Post, Date of Sailing: 18/05/1900
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Transvaal, Orange Free State and SA 1901 clasps. King's Silver Jubilee Medal.
Personal Characteristics: He was said to be a thorough gentleman.
Reasons to go and fight: Good Horseman
Details of service in war: June 1900 - June 1901 in Free State, Transvaal, and battle of Rhenoster Kop (29 November 1900), great De Wet hunt and advance on Pietersburg and into east Transvaal. Sergeant Perkins' Diary and poetry can be found HERE.
Service and life after the Boer War: After his discharge in 1901, Jack returned to Blandford near Murrurundi in NSW and purchased 'Riverslea', a small property of 42 acres, and over the next few years purchased two additional properties in the area which he farmed and stocked with cattle, remaining on the land until his death in 1957. He married Margaret Gooley and had nine children. He served as President and councillor of the Warrah and Murrurundi Council and was active council member from 1914 to 1950 and was awarded the King's Silver Jubilee Medal in May 1935 for services to the State by the Governor of NSW, Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven..
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Patricia Barrett, Roseville NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Daughter
