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Flying Officer CHARLES SIDNEY PURKIS

Service Number: 152439
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

635 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 12 June 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NANTES (PONT-DU-CENS) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot L. Row C. Coll. grave 24-26.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Sydney and Grace Purkis; husband of Kathleen A. Purkis, of Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
  • Personal Inscription "... SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND"
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