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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 264

(x) Pair: Captain D. W. Perkin, Royal Engineers, late Royal 1st Devonshire Yeomanry

British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. D. W. Perkin), very fine (2)

Dan Ward Perkin was born at Tavistock, Devon on 15 July 1881, where he was educated at Kelly College. A mining engineer by profession, he worked in South Africa in the period leading up to the Great War but returned home on the outbreak of hostilities and enlisted in the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry in October 1914.

Having remained employed on the home establishment in the interim, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in 1st Field Company, East Riding (Fortress) Engineers, R.E., in August 1915.

Advanced to the temporary rank of Lieutenant in August 1916, Perkin was embarked for Mesopotamia in October of the same year, where he attained the acting rank of Captain in the Northumbrian Divisional R.E. and won a mention in despatches from General Marshall, G.O.C. 14th Indian Division.

Perkin emigrated to Canada after the war, where he was employed by the Trans-Canada Road Survey until his return to the U.K. in the early 1930s. He died at Tavistock, Devon in January 1950; sold with a file of copied research.


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