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Private JOSEPH PURVIS

Service Number: 17730
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Yorkshire Regiment

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 October 1917

Buried or commemorated at

MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT

III. N. 4B.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Stepson of Alfred Purvis, of 4, Barrows Yard, Cornwallis Square, South Shields, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription LIVED WELL DIED BETTER
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Buried or commemorated at

MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT
Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 2358
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