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Major GEORGE ANTON PURRETT

Service Number: 152388
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 28 December 1946

Age 45 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GOSPORT (ANN'S HILL) CEMETERY

Plot 42. Grave 57.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Emily Purrett; husband of Mabel Patricia Purrett, of Gosport.
  • Personal Inscription LATELY SO WEARY, NOW AT REST
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Buried or commemorated at

GOSPORT (ANN'S HILL) CEMETERY
Hampshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 290
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