Mexborough and Swinton Times October 6, 1917

BDR E Perrin
Royal Field Artillery

Bombardier Perrin of Clayfield Rd, Mexborough has been wounded, and is now in a V.A.D. hospital at Histon near Cambridge.

He enlisted in January 1915, and went to France in the following June. Before enlistment he was employed at the Barnburgh Colliery. He is married, and has two children.

To one of them, a little boy, Capt A.M.Duff sent the following timely message:

“You will be sorry to hear that your father was wounded last night (August 9), but glad to know that the wound was a very slight one. I hope that he will be home soon, that you will soon have him well again.

We shall all be very sorry, however, that he has left the battery, for he was one of its bright and cheery members, and it is they who make a battery good or bad. He was always very cheerful under the most adverse conditions.”

Bombardier Perrin has many engagements to his credit, including those of the Somme, Aisne, Vimy, Messines, Zillebeke and Boesinghe.