Name: Pale Blue Dot
Price range: $

Herbert Owen Perkins

Occupation/Rank: 5192419, Private, 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment

Date of Death: 06 May 1941

Place of Death: East Twin Island

Age: 23

Private Herbert Perkins was killed when a gun emplacement on East Twin Island was hit by a high explosive.

He and six others from his unit, 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment and three from 175 Battery, 66th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, were killed.

Private Perkins is buried at Tiverton Cemetery.

Related People

Surname	Forename(s)	Age	Occupation/Rank	Date of Death	Place of Death
Brown	John	28	1465501, Gunner, 175 Battery, 66 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery	05 May 1941	East Twin Island	View
Corry	Henry	32	1544177, Gunner, 175 Battery, 66 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery	05 May 1941	East Twin Island.	View
Hill	James Stringer	27	1651937, Bombardier, 175 Battery, 66 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery	05 May 1941	East Twin Island	View
Morgan	William George	30	5192397, Private, 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment	06 May 1941	East Twin Island	View
Peters	Harold Herbert	22	5932738, Private, 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment	06 May 1941	East Twin Island	View
Price	Thomas	23	4036408, Private, 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment	06 May 1941	East Twin Island	View
Rooney	Joseph	24	4036188, Corporal, 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment	06 May 1941	East Twin Island	View
Rowley	Alfred John	24	5828822, Private, 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment	06 May 1941	East Twin Island	View
Ross	John (Jack) Reynolds	20	5933828, Private,9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment	05 May 1941	Royal Victoria Hospital	View