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Lance Corporal JOSEPH SLATER PURVES

Service Number: 27346
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 May 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POST OFFICE RIFLES CEMETERY, FESTUBERT

II. F. 11.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Cole Purves and Christina Purves, of 9, Garden St., Grimsby. Enlisted Aug., 1914.
  • Personal Inscription ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED AND LOST CAN UNDERSTAND WAR'S BITTER COST
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Buried or commemorated at

POST OFFICE RIFLES CEMETERY, FESTUBERT
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 400
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