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Major GEORGE JAMES PURCELL

Service Number: 20817
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

2/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 07 March 1940

Buried or commemorated at

CARLISLE (UPPERBY) CEMETERY

Ward 5. Sec. A. Grave 65.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Jessie Purcell, of Threlkeld.
  • Personal Inscription AUT VINCAM AUT PEREAM
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Buried or commemorated at

CARLISLE (UPPERBY) CEMETERY
Cumberland United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 26
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