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Private MOSES PURKISS

Service Number: 17998
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

196th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 31 July 1917

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

V. B. 33.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Moses and Harriett Purkiss, of 72, Grosvenor St., Southsea, Portsmouth.
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Buried or commemorated at

VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1820
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