Electrical Lieutenant WILLIAM JAMES PURVIS
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
H.M.S. Claverhouse.
Date of Death
Died 09 October 1943
Age 31 years old
Buried or commemorated at
GILLINGHAM (WOODLANDS) CEMETERY, KENT
Naval Reservation. Grave 1546.
United Kingdom
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of William James Purvis and Sarah Purvis; husband of Kathleen Purvis, of Ealing, Middlesex.
- Personal Inscription HE SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD AGE SHALL NOT WEARY HIM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN
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