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Corporal HENRY PURFIT

Service Number: 2309659
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

18 Div. Postal Unit

Date of Death

Died 24 April 1942

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KRANJI WAR CEMETERY

8. B. 20.

Singapore

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Margaret Purfit; husband of Mary Gretchen Purfit (nee McGregor), of Rutherglen, Lanarkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY"
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