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Private ALBERT PURKISS

Service Number: 309182
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Tank Corps

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 September 1918

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BELLICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

IV. S. 2.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly (13572) 8th Bn. Norfolk Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Purkiss, of 76, Usk St., Green St., Bethnal Green, London.
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Buried or commemorated at

BELLICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Aisne France
Number of casualties: 1208
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