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Corporal WILLIAM PURVIS

Service Number: 22938
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

149th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 26 June 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROISILLES BRITISH CEMETERY

I. F. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal and Bar
  • Additional Info Son of George and Elizabeth M. Purvis, of Richmond Villa, Horncliffe, Berwick-on-Tweed.
  • Personal Inscription ASLEEP IN JESUS
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Buried or commemorated at

CROISILLES BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1195
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