Second Lieutenant EVELYN WALTER COPLAND PERRY
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Flying Corps
Date of Death
Died 16 August 1914
Age 23 years old
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- 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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