Career
Perrett originally played rugby for his local club Briton Ferry before eventually playing for Neath. 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 team mate Glyn Stephens.
The two complemented each other well, especially during line outs. 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.
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. Perrett is often left out of lists of the Welsh international war dead due to his supposed defection to the professional game. Wales
England 1913
France 1913
Ireland 1913
Scotland 1913
South Africa 1912.
