PERKINS George

George Perkins volunteered for the Worcesters and was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in 1916. He would probably have fought on the Somme in 1916 and at Passchendaele in 1917. In the course of this long period of struggle it is likely that he was seriously wounded and returned home to convalesce. However, he died of wounds on the 15th December.

The following extract is taken from the WW1 Commemorative Book, ‘The Lost Twenty Nine’ by Jean Weston and Marlene Price and is courtesy and copyright of West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust 2014:
George Perkins was the youngest of the fifteen soldiers buried in Lye and Wollescote Cemetery. He died of wounds in Birmingham University Hospital and was buried in the cemetery with full military honours on the afternoon of 19th December 1917. His mother died in 1945 and his father in 1946; both are buried in the same grave as their son.

Further information relating to the cemetery and other casualties buried there can be found in The Lost Twenty Nine, available to purchase from the authors, Waterstones and W.H. Smith at Merry Hill Shopping Centre, Ashwood Nurseries and The Black Country Museum.