| BORN | December 1907, Steeple Claydon | 
	| LIVED | Woodman's Yard, Deanshanger | 
	| Death | 5 August 1944, Lincolnshire | 
	| Buried | Lincoln [Newport] Cemetery. Sec. H. Grave 194 South. | 
	| Rank & Regiment | Gunner, 4806790, Royal Artillery 8 Res. A.A. Regt. | 
	| Father | William Joseph Perkins b 1879, Steeple Claydon | 
	| Mother | Louisa Harriet Nichols, b 1886, Akeley | 
	| Notes | Sidney was the eldest of 6 siblings.  Their mother died in 1917, when Sidney was 10.  In the 1921 census Sidney was working at Hurst Farm, WIcken and his father worked in the Smithy at E & H Roberts .  Sidney married Marie Best in Darwen Lancashire in July 1941.  The couple are believed to have had a daughter, Carol, born 1942 |