| Description | Scrapbook compiled by Perkin's parents containing his full biography from an early age, childhood and portrait photographs, school essays, commission, telegrams, memorial scroll, letters of condolence, letters explaining circumstances when Perkin was shot, letters from War Office, obituaries, general clippings and articles on 12th Battalion and whole Regiment, pressed flowers, photographs of Thiepval Memorial being built and of Serre, pages from Strand Magazine May 1918 and June 1918 with two-part article by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the battle of the Somme, cuttings of poems and hymns, orders of service for dedication of memorials (372 pieces). |