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Captain DAVID GILBERT PURGAVIE

Service Number: 229265
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1944

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY

VIII. D. 8.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Gilbert Hay Purgavie and Elizabeth Currie Purgavie, of Alloa, Clackmannanshire.
  • Personal Inscription O FOR THE TOUCH OF A VANISHED HAND, AND THE SOUND OF A VOICE THAT IS STILL!
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Buried or commemorated at

BANNEVILLE-LA-CAMPAGNE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2175
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