Sapper ROBERT PURVIS
Service Number: 1601
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Engineers
2nd/3rd (Durham) Field Coy.
Date of Death
Died 02 January 1917
Age 27 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Robert and Dora Purvis, of Silksworth, Co. Durham; husband of Ethel Purvis, of 21, Candlish Terrace, Seaham Harbour, Co. Durham.
- Personal Inscription THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY
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