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Gunner G PURVIS

Service Number: 777757
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

57 (1/5th Bn. The East Surrey Regt.) Anti-Tank Regt.

Date of Death

Died 22 May 1940

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ESQUELMES WAR CEMETERY

V. B. 67.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Mary Purvis; husband of Agnes Walker Purvis, of Newton Colliery, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS" EVER REMEMBERED BY SON AND DAUGHTER
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Buried or commemorated at

ESQUELMES WAR CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 233
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