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Sapper ALFRED WILLIAM GEORGE PURCHASE

Service Number: 6153748
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

656 Artisan Works Coy.

Date of Death

Died 28 March 1945

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

V. E. 14.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Beatrice May Purchase, of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON, DEAR SON. IF LOVE COULD HAVE SAVED YOU YOU WOULD NOT HAVE DIED
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