Mons Star Trio. Perkins. 2Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Hockley, Birmingham.

Correctly named Star: 8132 Pte E Perkins 2/RW Fus

Correctly named Pair: 8132 Pte E Perkins RW Fus

Ernest was born in 1885.

He served with the 2nd Battalion.

He went overseas to France on the 13th of August 1914 earning his 1914 Star Trio.

The 2 Bn Royal Welsh Fusiliers was mobilised on 4 August 1914 at Dorchester and embarked for France 6 days later. The battalion served a various actions on the Western Front including; 1915, Hooge and Loos Offensive; 1916, the Somme; 1917 Arras Offensive and Third Ypres and in 1918 the Kaiser Offensive and 100 Days.

He married Elizabeth Annette Stemp.

His Pension Index Card tells us he was discharged from service in March 1917 due to heart trouble though no evidence found for the award of a Silver War Badge. It also gives us another address for Ernest as 49 Augustus Street in Birmingham.

Post war in 1921 we find him living at 59 Abbey Street, Hockley, Birmingham and working as a brass & copper tuber/drawer for CJW Barwell. James Barwell was renown for making bells.

In 1939 we find them living at 196 Warstone Lane in Birmingham and he is still working in the copper and brass industry.

All medals have original silk ribbons.

A group worthy of further research.