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Lance Corporal P W PURCHASE

Service Number: 77601V
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Q Service Corps, S.A. Forces

57 Coy.

Date of Death

Died 01 May 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

II. B. 3.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service South African
  • Additional Info Son of Pieter W. and Emmeline C. Purchase, of Pietersburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
  • Personal Inscription OORKENT DIE WATERS, BLINKEND EN BLY. WAG MY GELIEFDE, WAG HY VIR MY
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