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Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Chief Petty Officer Edward Charles Perkins.

Australasian Saturday 09 October 1915 page 32

 

Perkins E C   Artificer, Farrier, CPO    256  Edward Charles   1 RAN Bridging Train   21  Farrier    Single  C of E    

Address:    Essendon, Pascoe Cres, "Newport", 24  

Next of Kin:    Perkins, Harry, father, "Newport", 24 Pascoe Cres, Essendon   

Enlisted:    12 Apr 1915       

Embarked:     A39 Port Macquarie 4 Jun 1915   

 

Relatives on Active Service:

Perkins-P-H-Driver-1474 brother

 

Date of death: 06/09/1915

CWGC: "Son of Philip Henry and E. Perkins, of Essendon, Victoria, Australia".

HILL 10 CEMETERY

 

Members of the 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train. CPO Perkins is

identified in the back row second from the right, marked with an x. Circa 1915

http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P06855.001

 

C.P.O. E. C. Perkins, of the Naval Bridging Train (killed) was formerly sergeant in the Essendon Rifles, and was offered the position of Chief Petty Officer in the Naval Bridging Train, which he joined to learn the trade of blacksmithing. He formerly worked for Mr. B. Laughlin, of Flemington. He was a popular lad, 21 years of age. His parents reside in Pascoe crescent, Essendon.

 

Private P. R. Burns was formerly. (1915, September 30). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 5 Edition: Morning.. Retrieved January 15, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74590261

 

SCHOOL MATTERS

 

The Monthly meeting of the Essendon State school committee was held on Monday, November 8th. ........

 

It was resolved that a letter of condolence be sent to Mrs. Perkins re the sad loss of her son.

 

SCHOOL MATTERS. (1915, November 18). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 6 Edition: Morning.. Retrieved January 20, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74590871

 

 

Mentioned in this publication:

Transcript of diary of Laurie John Smee, 1915-1917

http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2012/05/14/royal-australian-naval-bridging-train-diary/

http://www.navy.gov.au/history/feature-histories/1st-royal-australian-naval-bridging-train

 

Harold Snape's Diary, 1915

https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/57fc8f6bd0cdd12c4077a754

Sunday Sep 5 " Schank, Michaelson, Wood & Smith hit with shrapnel about 10-30a.m."

Monday Sep 6 "Shells in amongst us. Perkins killed. Lonie wounded."

 

War Service Commemorated

Essendon Town Hall L-R

South Essendon Methodist Church*

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour killed

 

 

KILLED IN ACTION

 

PERKINS. - Killed in action at the Dardanelles

on the 6th September, C.P.O. E. C. Perkins, Naval Bridging Train.

Deeply regretted.

-(Inserted by the "Wanderers.").

 

Family Notices. (1915, September 25). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.

: 1848 - 1956), p. 11. Retrieved January 21, 2013, from

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1564369

 

BEREAVEMENT CARDS.    

MR. and Mrs. PERKINS and Family wish to

convey sincere and heartfelt THANKS to

their and his kind friends, relatives, and

neighbours for kind sympathy shown in

their sad and great loss of their dear son

and brother, Chief Petty-officer E. C. Perkins

(our Ted), killed in action at the Dardanelles

on the 6th September.   "Newport," Pascoe

crescent, Essendon.  

 

Family Notices. (1915, September 25). The Argus

 (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 11. Retrieved

January 21, 2013, from

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1564369

 

In Memoriam

 

PERKINS. In sad and loving memory of our

dear son and brother, Chief Petty Officer

Edward C. Perkins, of the R.A.N.B., killed at

Suvla Bay, Gallipoli.

Help us to say, "Not my will, but Thine."

Oh, Ted, Ted!.     -(Essendon.)  

 

PERKINS.-In loving memory of our dear brother,

Edward Charles (chief petty officer of the N.B.T.),

who was killed, at Suvla Bay, on the 6th September,

1915.

Though the waves of ocean divide us,

And you sleep on a foreign shore

Remembrance is a relic

That will last for evermore,

(Inserted by his sister and brother-in- law, R and T Bullock, Garfield.)

 

PERKINS.-In loving memory of my dear friend,

Chief Petty Officer E. C. Perkins (Ted), of the

R.A.N. Bridging Train, killed in action at the

Dardanelles on the 6th September.

Though the waves of the ocean divide us,  

And you sleep on a foreign shore,  

Remembrance is a relic

That will live for evermore.      

-(Inserted by his loving friend, Daisy Ogden*.)

 

*This may have been Elizabeth Daisy Ogden, a tailoress

of 8 Agatha St, Essendon, and sister of Ogden D H Pte 5071.

Ogden also attended Essendon State School.

 

Family Notices. (1916, September 6). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. :

1848 - 1956), p. 1. Retrieved January 20, 2013, from

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1601846

 

 

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