Flying Officer CHARLES SIDNEY PURKIS
Service Number: 152439
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
635 Sqdn.
Date of Death
Died 12 June 1944
Age 20 years old
Buried or commemorated at
NANTES (PONT-DU-CENS) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Plot L. Row C. Coll. grave 24-26.
France
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Charles Sydney and Grace Purkis; husband of Kathleen A. Purkis, of Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
- Personal Inscription "... SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND"
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