Harvey Perkins

Victoria v Rest of Australia
Changi POW Camp

Sunday 24th January 1943
Player Profile

Name

Harvey Richard Perkins

Name & Club as per original list

Football Life Sept. 1969

Perkins (Mortlake)

Service Number

VX45167

Unit

Born

23/11/1918

Died

19/10/1989 (71 Years)

Club

League

Games

Goals

Hampden Football Netball League

TBC

TBC

Victoria versus Rest of Australia Match Stats.

Team

Victoria

Age on Game Day

24 Years

Goals

None

Awards

None

Player Information and References

WWII Nominal Roll

Camperdown Chronicle 05/06/1947 Played for Mortlake pre war in Hampden League and reports of him playing in Mortlake 2nds in 1947

Mortlake Avenue of Honour Veterans Group: Representing Victoria was VX45167 Gunner Harvey Perkins of the 2nd/4th Anti-Tank Regiment. Born in England, Harvey Perkins resided in and played football for Mortlake before the war. In total he served outside of Australia for 1732 days and on his release and return to Australia was finally discharged from the 2nd AIF on the 16th January 1946.

Ancestry: When Harvey Richard Perkins was born in 1918 in Mutford, Suffolk, his father, Joseph, was 40 and his mother, Tillie/Matilda, was 38. He married Edna Faye Bryant in 1945 in Victoria. They had one child during their marriage. He died on 19 October 1989 in Woorndoo, Victoria, at the age of 71.