Walter John Perkis

[Encyclopedia Titanica]

Walter John Perkis : Titanic Survivor

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

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[Ward Susan]

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

 

[Andrew Riddles]

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.'