The Australian Boer War Memorial
Anzac Parade Canberra
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Major Alfred Perkins DSO |
Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Alfred Edward Perkins
Ancestor's date of birth: Detail not provided
Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided
Cause of Death: Old Age
Service Number: Officer no number
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney
Unit: NSW Army Medical Corps, also Bearer Company
Rank attained in Boer War: MAJ, Date Effective: Detail not provided
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided
Murray Page: 15, 17, 20
Contingent: First New South Wales
Ship: Kent, Date of Sailing: 28/10/1899
Memorial details: Interred in Wentworth Falls Cemetery
Decorations: Queens Medal With clasps. DSO Mentioned in Dispatches London Gazette 19/4/1901
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: December 1899 - December 1900 in Cape Colony, Free State, and Transvaal. Was briefly a POW.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 8 January 1901 on the Orient. Medals and uniform on display in Canberra's War Memorial, Boer War section.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Mary Lusby, Breakfast Point NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand Daughter
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