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Lance Corporal ARTHUR ROSS PURDON

Service Number: 2983145
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 22 November 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY

3. A. 17.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David Jarvie Purdon and Margaret Purdon; husband of Isabel Hunter Purdon, of Devonside, Clackmannanshire.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 500
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