Aboard Perkis served on the 6-8pm watch; at the time of the collision he was off duty when the ships joiner came to his quarters and advised the men to
Walter Perkis lived in Victoria Road, Bitterne, not Bitterne Park. Victoria Road is now called Chatsworth Road, and for the last 35 years my husband and I have lived in the house that Walter Perkis lived in. Susan Ward
My grandfather, Reg Riddles, was billeted with Walter Perkis' family during WWII when he (my granddad) served as a police constable with the city's police force. My father remembers meeting Walter on several occasions during and after the war. He was known by all then as 'Pop.'
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