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Private ALEXANDER TAYLOR PURFIT

Service Number: 3324662
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 January 1945

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

19. J. 17.

Myanmar

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander Taylor Purfit and Jessie Hannah Purfit, of Glasgow.
  • Personal Inscription THOSE WHO KNEW HIM WILL KNOW HOW MUCH WE LOST SOME YEARS AGO. MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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