9396 Sgt George Edmund Perkis, 1 Norfolk Regiment

1889 Oct/Dec. Born Isle of Wight

1890 Jun 29 Christened at Ryde

1891 census at 7, Heyworth Road, West Ham

1901 census 28, Wheat Sheaf Inn, Nelson Street, Ryde

1903 Nov 25. Enlisted in Sherwood Foresters as a boy soldier age 14. His Service Record is on Ancestry

1911 census he is a Lance Corporal in Sherwood Foresters in Barracks in London

1914 Oct/Dec Married Daisy Lydia Bunce in Paddington, London. His profession is "Sergeant master tailor" and that is confirmed in his service record

1915 Jul 6. A Male child born

1919 Aug 7. Admitted to hospital in Belfast with intestinal problems

1919 Oct 7.Leaves hospital

1920 Feb 22, died Belfast. Son of Edmund and Mary Perkis, of Ryde, Isle of Wight; husband of D. L. Perkis, of 156, Fifth Avenue, Queens Park, London.

Buried Belfast City Cemetery

British soldiers died in Ireland