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Pte. Thomas Perris

British Arrmy 8th Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment

from:Weston, Berkshire.

My late father, Private Thomas Perris, Regimental Number 14355, enlisted in the 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment at Reading on the 7th September 1914. He was wounded at the Battle of Loos in 1915 and returned home to be hospitalised in Bristol.

He recovered and was sent back to the front to join the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment and was again wounded near Arras on the 28th March 1917. He was discharged from Leicester Northern General Hospital on 30th October, 1918. Having survived bullet wounds and losing half of one foot to mustard gas he married, fathered 5 children and went on the live to be 93.



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