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Private ROBERT ANDREW LOMAX PURVES

Service Number: 4397
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots

1st/9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 August 1916

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ

I. A. 53.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 5th/6th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Andrew John Reid Purves and Eliza Martha Lomax, his wife, of Athelston Lodge, Preston, Prestonpans, Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription AT REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2053
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