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Flying Officer BASIL LAIRD PURKIS

Service Number: 129554
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

101 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 25 August 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULT-AUX-BOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry James Purkis and Bessie Purkis; husband of M. Joyce Purkis, of Penheden Heath, Maidstone, Kent. Barrister-at-Law.
  • Personal Inscription HE SHALL RECEIVE THE BLESSING FROM THE LORD
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Buried or commemorated at

BOULT-AUX-BOIS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Ardennes France
Number of casualties: 7
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