Ordinary Seaman HENRY PURVIS
Service Number: N/3585
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Canadian Navy
H.M.C.S. Saguenay
Date of Death
Died 01 December 1940
Age 19 years old
Buried or commemorated at
BARROW-IN-FURNESS (THORNCLIFFE) CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM
Sec. 5. Nonconformist. Grave 2127.
United Kingdom
- Country of Service Canadian
- Additional Info Son of Henry and Ellen Louisa Purvis, of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.
- Personal Inscription BRAVELY HE ANSWERED HIS COUNTRY'S CALL. HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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