Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Stanley Milbank Perkins

Ancestor's date of birth: 06/06/1878

Ancestor's date of death: 16/02/1951

Cause of Death: Unknown

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Born in Adelaide. Was a Chartered Accountant and member of the Port Pirie Rifles before enlisting in Perth WA.

Service Number: 53

Colony or State of enlistment: WA, Place of Enlistment: Perth

Unit: 2^nd Western Australian Mounted Infantry

Rank attained in Boer War: LCPL, Date Effective: 03/03/1900

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): 2LT, Date Effective: 1916?

Murray Page: 407

Contingent: Second Western Australian

Ship: Surrey, Date of Sailing: 03/02/1900

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with at least Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal Clasps. 1914/15 Star?, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: March - November 1900 in north-west Cape Colony, Free State, and east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Travelled to England, served in the 2/14 York and Lancaster Regiment. Married a South African girl, Edith Watson after the Boer War. First three of their five children born in South Africa. Had a plantation in Vanuatu. When WW1 broke out he rejoined his old English regiment and served in France in the 2nd Bn. Eventually returned to live in WA.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Christine Ballard, Currabubula NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Granddaughter

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