PERRINS, Frank

Frank Perrins was born in Bromsgrove but must have had some link with the Lye area. He enlisted in the Worcesters and was sent to the 10th (Service) Battalion. They experienced the later stages of the Somme and by mid-1917 they were in Flanders awaiting the Third Battle of Ypres. In September they came into the front line for the third phase and the Battle of the Menin Road. It started on the 20th September with an attack over open ground followed by a German counter-attack. Some ground was won but the losses amounted to about a third of the battalion's strength. Private Frank Perrins was killed in action on this day. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot, Lye and Wollescote and Lye church Memorials.