Sgt Stripes Posted 30 June , 2022 Share Posted 30 June , 2022 Found this tobacco box in a antique shop named to A Perrin 1916 and inside was this newspaper cutting of a poem to the downed Zeppelin LZ85 taken from the Balkan News. Such a pity we will never know who he was as there are no other service details on the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 30 June , 2022 Share Posted 30 June , 2022 Not a common name Perrin, have done any searches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin kenf48 Posted 30 June , 2022 Admin Share Posted 30 June , 2022 There is this A.perrin on the National Roll of the Great War, served in Salonica:- image courtesy of FMP as the OP is 'close to the Manchester Ship Canal might be worth further research(?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Stripes Posted 30 June , 2022 Author Share Posted 30 June , 2022 Only done a very brief search. I like the sound of the Manchester Reg. Whoever he was he was there in 1916. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie962 Posted 30 June , 2022 Share Posted 30 June , 2022 (edited) The poem was written (perhaps??) by Pte Archie Mason, 2nd NFA RAMC, 86th Field Ambulance, 28 Div, and appeared in the papers June 1916. Edit.. The version appearing in June 1917 no longer says ' by one who was there' but has Mason's name. The original had appeared in the Balkan News and had been copied by a number of soldiers and sent to the UK newspapers. Edited 30 June , 2022 by charlie962 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Stripes Posted 30 June , 2022 Author Share Posted 30 June , 2022 Interesting reply. Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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