steele-perkins

Updated: May 10, 2025

"Just like Clutterbuck," wrote a wounded sergeant, describing the officer's valor, and adding, "Lieutenant Steele-Perkins also died one of the grandest deaths a British officer could wish for. He was lifted out of the trenches wounded four times, but protested and crawled back again till he was mortally wounded."

James Alexander Kilpatrick - Tommy Atkins at War: As Told in His Own Letters