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Able Seaman CHARLES WILLIAM PURKIS

Service Number: R/378
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Nelson Bn. R.N. Div.

Date of Death

Died 12 May 1917

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAVERHILL CEMETERY

M. 84. 213.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mary Ann and the late William Purkis; husband of Beatrice Gertrude Purkis, of 46, Hamlet Rd., Haverhill. Born at Haverhill,.
  • Personal Inscription GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
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