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Sergeant FRANK PURNELL

Service Number: 754901
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

148 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 07 July 1941

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FAYID WAR CEMETERY

1. B. 8.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Sarah Jane Purnell, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEEP IN OUR HEARTS IS A MEMORY OF ONE WE LOVED AND WILL NEVER FORGET. MAM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

FAYID WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1816
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