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Private R PURNELL

Service Number: 69865
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 September 1919

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MURMANSK NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

Sp. Mem. B30.

Russian Federation (North)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Skey Purnell and Mary Purnell, of Cardiff. (buried Kandalaksha Burial Ground).
  • Personal Inscription THY WILL BE DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

MURMANSK NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Russian Federation (North)
Number of casualties: 83
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