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Second Lieutenant EVELYN WALTER COPLAND PERRY

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Flying Corps

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1914

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. ACHEUL FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY, AMIENS

7.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter Copland Perry, M.A., Ph.D., Barrister-at-Law, and Evelyn F. Perry (nee Stopford), of 29, Thurloe Square, South Kensington, London. The first British Officer killed on active service in France during the Great War.
  • Personal Inscription FIRST ON THE ROLL OF HONOUR ALL GLORY TO HIS NAME
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