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Fusilier JOHN ALBERT PURKIS

Service Number: 6479884
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 September 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY

V, A, 8.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Joan Purkis, of Harrow, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription NON SIBI SED PATRISE
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Buried or commemorated at

CORIANO RIDGE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1940
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