PERKINS, JOHN CHARLES CAMPBELL,
Colonel, was born in London 2 April 1866, son of Surgeon General R H
Perkins, Indian Medical Service, Honourable East India Company's Service,
and Anne Bowden Campbell, of Inverneill and Ross; a direct descendant in
eldest line of John Perkins, senior partner, Barclay & Perkins, Brewers. He
was educated at Stamford Grammar School, and Rossall School; joined the
Militia, 4th Battalion Shropshire Light Infantry; was commissioned in 1st
Leinster Regiment, 1887; joined 1st Battalion, in India, 1888; joined Indian
Staff Corps, 1890, 44th Gurkha Rifles; also served with 43rd Gurkha Rifles
in Assam and Manipur; then for a short while with 10th Bengal Infantry.
From 1900 to 1903 he held conjointly appointments of Controller of Military
Accounts and Field Paymaster, Indian Contingent, and Officer Commanding
Indian Details, South Africa Force. He was mentioned in Despatches [London
Gazette, 17 June 1902], and created a Companion of the Distinguished Service
Order [London Gazette, 26 June 1902]: "John Charles Campbell Perkins,
Captain, Indian Staff Corps. In recognition of services during operations
in South Africa". He was invested by the King 18 February 1903.
The following is an extract from
Divisional Orders by Major General K Lloyd-Payne, CB, DSO, Commanding 5th (Mhow)
Division, dated Mhow, the 1st March 1916:
“administration.
“130. Special. The General Officer commanding the Division regrets
to announce the death of Lieutenant Colonel J C C Perkins, DSO, Military
Deputy Auditor-General, Southern Army. Lieutenant Colonel Perkins, in the
course of his tour in the Division, came to Mhow with full military
honours. Entering the Service on the 16th November 1887, Lieutenant Colonel
Perkins joined the Leinster Regiment, and was transferred to the Indian Army
on the 8th January 1890. On the 15th February 1894, he joined the Military
Accounts Department, in which he served through the South African War, for
his services in which he was mentioned in Despatches and received the DSO.
On the reorganization of the Military Accounts Department, he was appointed
Military Deputy Auditor-General, Southern Army, on 1 April 1914, in which
appointment he was serving at the time of his death. From the very
beginning of the war, Colonel Perkins was called upon to undertake a mass of
extra work of a very trying nature, and did not spare himself in the
performance of his duty. The General Officer Commanding is assured that all
will join with him in regretting the decease of this distinguished officer,
whose decease was largely attributable, if not entirely due, to his
unremitting labours in connection with the war". Colonel Perkins was fond
of cricket, football and racquets, and sport of all kinds. He married (1st)
Emma Victoria Augusta, daughter of General Douglas Seafield Grant, ISC (who
died in 1912), and (secondly), in 1913, Charlotte Mary, daughter of Harold
Beauchamp.
