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The Roll records merely that he died serving in the Worcestershire Regiment; it does not record any former address, Battalion or date/place of death.
(CWGC records that Private Abraham Perry died aged 25 on 12/10/1916 serving in 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment under regimental number 24236, and is buried in grave 7.3.2247 at Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough. Abraham's headstone in Broadway Cemetery records that he had been wounded in France in April 1916, and had died in Peterborough on 12/10/1916, aged 25. The final line of the inscription on the private headstone reads "In Thee the fatherless findeth mercy". Abraham is not recorded by Soldiers Died in the Great War or in the Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects. His Army pension file records that he was aged 24, working as a hawker and living at 98 Cator Street in Peckham, when he enlisted on 14/8/1915 in Southwark as a Private in the Worcestershire Regiment. He gave his next of kin as his brother John Perry, who he said was serving in the 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. The file records that Abraham was posted to the 5th Battalion on 22/8/1915, and that he was sent to France on 12/5/1916 with the 3rd Battalion. Having suffered fainting fits, he was referred to Rouen Hospital, which sent him back to England on 3/6/1916. He was discharged from the Army due to a heart condition on 29/7/1916 and awarded an Army pension. He was treated at 1st Eastern Hospital in Cambridge. His death certificate records that he died at 94 Gladstone Street in Peterborough on 12/10/1916 from acute endocarditis and bronchitis; his former occupation was recorded as "Core Maker, Mechanical Engineers (Army Pensioner"). On 21/10/1916 the Peterborough Advertiser announced his death, reporting him to be a native of Birmingham. On Friday 20/10/1916 the Stamford Mercury reported his funeral the previous Monday, with military honours, stating of Abraham that he had: "died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Robinson. Gladstone street, aged 25. He had served in the Army for two years and went out to France with his brother, who was killed by his side. He was subsequently wounded. and after being in hospital was discharged. He came to Peterborough and commenced work at Messrs Perkins, engineers, but after working for a month was taken ill, the cause of death being pneumonia and heart failure. caused by the wounds he had received").