Corporal William Henry Perraton, 5191, 8th Battalion, A.I.F.
He was born 5th July 1895, Son of William Thomas Crooke Perraton and May Kate Perraton, of 11, Princes St., St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia. A native of Maryborough, Victoria.
He went to school in Prahran and was 4 years in the 49th Infantry Battalion, Prahran rising to the rank of Lieutenant. ( His service in the Citizen force consisted of: 12 months as a Sergeant, 4 months as a Colour Sergeant, 6 Months as a 2nd Lieutenant and 2 years as a Lieutenant. He passed the exam for Captain in May 1914).
He was a clerk at the Union Steam Ship Company. At Business College he passed the Standard Certificate and won a Merit Certificate.
27th July 1915 aged 20 he enlisted at Prahran, Victoria.
He was 5’ 9” tall, weighed 10 stone, and had blue eyes and brown hair.
He started his military career at Castlemaine with the 20th Depot Battalion.
6th March 1916 he was transferred to the 39th Battalion at Ballarat and 4 days later on 10th March he was moved to Broadmeadows Camp, Melbourne.
23rd March 1916. He was placed with the 16th Reinforcements for the 8th Battalion with the rank of Acting Corporal.
14th May 1916 he disembarked at the Suez and made it to Marseilles on the 4th June 1916.
7th June 1916 he arrived at 1st A.D.B.D at Etaples and joined the 8th Battalion on the 29th July. A day later he was officially made Lance Corporal on 30th July 1916.
12th August 1916 he was promoted to Corporal.
18th August 1916, 6 Days after the promotion he was killed in action on aged 21, at Pozieres.
A letter to his father from the Australian Red Cross, Dated 6th March 1917 States
Private B Draffin, 4485 on 23rd November stated –
“Perraton was a friend of mine and he was killed by a shell at Pozieres. He and a man named Bailey scraped out a dugout in the parapet of a trench and a shell fell on the top of the trench and killed them. I was told this by Pte. Gregory, late of the 8th Battalion now of the 6th Battalion."
And again a letter dated 12th July 1917, states the following:
Private WT Hamblett, no 1035 on 3rd May, stated,
“He was in C Company. He was killed at Pozieres by a shell it was his first time in the line. I did not see him myself but was told this by Cpl. Brown that he had seen him killed.”
Private G F Fletcher, No 3057 on the 27th April stated-
“He knew Bailey and Perraton (whose name he gave before it was read to him) and they were great friends, both being in A Company. They were both formerly officers in the Australian Citizen’s Force and gave up their commissions to come out to the A.I.F. The casualty was at Pozieres- the second stunt- and they were in the trenches for the first time having joined the Battalion on July 29th. Informant (a very intelligent witness) could not recall names, but clearly remembered several men saying that they saw Perraton and Bailey, who went over together blown up by the same shell in No Man’s Land.”
He is buried in Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-La-Boisselle.
Source : Australian National Archives
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