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Robert Warren Perkins, the son of Gerald and Evelyn (Binks) Perkins, was born on July 18, 1918, in Claremont, New Hampshire. By 1922, he was residing in Schenectady with his family. He attended the University of New Hampshire after receiving his diploma from Nott Terrace High School.
Robert enlisted in the United States Army. He held the rank of First Lieutenant and served with the 60th Cavalry Regiment. On February 18, 1943, Robert died in Osaka, Japan, where he was a prisoner of war. He is buried in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Philippines.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon