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Private W PURVES

Service Number: 288053
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 November 1918

Age 49 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LES BARAQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, SANGATTE

VI. F. 12A.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (569410) 54th Prisoners of War Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Elliot Purves and Isabella Forsyth Purves (nee Short), of Manseburn House, Largs, Ayrshire. Native of Glasgow.
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Buried or commemorated at

LES BARAQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, SANGATTE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1569
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