Fred Perrett

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title: "Fred Perrett" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1891-births", "1918-deaths", "20th-century-welsh-sportsmen", "aberavon-rfc-players", "british-army-personnel-of-world-war-i", "british-military-personnel-killed-in-world-war-i", "hull-f.c.-players", "leeds-rhinos-players", "neath-rfc-players", "royal-welch-fusiliers-officers", "rugby-league-players-from-briton-ferry", "rugby-union-players-from-briton-ferry", "rugby-union-props", "wales-international-rugby-union-players", "welsh-guards-soldiers", "welsh-rugby-league-players", "welsh-rugby-union-players"] description: "Wales international rugby union & league footballer" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Perrett" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Wales international rugby union & league footballer ::

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Field	Value
name	Fred Perrett
image	File:Fred Perrett.jpg
birth_name	Fred Leonard Perrett
birth_date
birth_place	Briton Ferry, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
death_date
death_place	Boulogne, France
ru_position	Prop
amatteam1	Briton Ferry RFC
amatteam2	Aberavon RFC
amatteam3	Neath RFC
repyears1	1912-1913
repcaps1	5
module	{{infobox rugby league biography
position	Forward
club1	Leeds
year1start	1913
appearances1
club2	Hull FC
year2start	1914
appearances2
module2	{{infobox military person
embed	yes
allegiance	United Kingdom
branch
unit	Welsh Guards
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
battles	World War I
service_years	1916-18
rank	second lieutenant
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Fred Leonard Perrett (9 May 1891 – 1 December 1918) was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Neath. He won five caps for Wales, and in his first international game faced the touring South Africans.

Rugby career

Perrett originally played rugby for his local club Briton Ferry before eventually playing for Neath. While a member of Neath he earned his first Welsh cap against the touring South Africa team. Wales ran the South Africans close, but lost to a single penalty kick.

Perrett was reselected for Wales in the 1913 Five Nations Championship, one of only two Welsh players to appear in all four matches of the campaign; the other being Neath teammate Glyn Stephens. The two complemented each other well, especially during line outs. The Welsh team lost the first game against England, but won the final three games to finish second. Perrett may have been selected for further Wales matches, but turned professional at the end of the 1912/13 season, joining rugby league team Leeds, making his début on 6 September 1913, he later joined Hull FC.

Perrett's league career was cut short by the outbreak of World War I. He joined the Welsh Guards, and served in France from 19 February 1916. He was subsequently commissioned as a second lieutenant, and transferred to the 17th Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers with seniority from 27 June 1917. He was seriously injured and died of his wounds in a casualty clearing station almost a month after the Armistice. He is buried at Terlincthun British Cemetery at Wimille in France.

International matches played

Wales

• 1913
• 1913
• 1913
• 1913
• 1912

Bibliography

References

References

1. (December 2019)
2. [https://archive.today/20110526161534/http://www.wru.co.uk/12750_14256.php?player=26217&includeref=dynamic WRU player profiles]
3. Griffiths (1987), pg 4:16.
4. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=4795801 Medal card of Perrett, Fred Leonard], ''DocumentsOnline'', [[The National Archives]] (fee may be payable to view full original pdf of medal card). Retrieved 10 November 2008.
5. {{London Gazette. (9 November 1917)
6. [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4026803 Casualty details—Perrett, Fred Leonard], [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]. Retrieved 10 November 2008.
7. Perrett is often left out of lists of the Welsh international war dead due to his supposed defection to the professional game.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/warstories/pages/rugbyinternationals.shtml Rugby Heroes who went to War] [[BBC Online]] Matthew Ferris, November 2008
8. Smith (1980), pg 470.

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