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Serjeant BERNARD PURKISS

Service Number: 4850718
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Army Catering Corps

Date of Death

Died 02 October 1945

Age 48 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIGSTON CEMETERY

Sec. H. Grave 235.

United Kingdom

Headstone

Photographer: Michael McCann

  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2/5th Bn. Leicestershire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Margaret Purkiss, of South Wigston.
  • Personal Inscription IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF BERNARD. CALLED TO HIGHER SERVICE R.I.P.
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