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Private J PURKINS

Service Number: 18429
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 October 1918

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TEMPLEUX-LE-GUERARD BRITISH CEMETERY

I. H. 23.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Purkins, of Marylebone, London; husband of Emily Purkins, of 40, Wavely Rd., Harrow Rd., Paddington, London.
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Buried or commemorated at

TEMPLEUX-LE-GUERARD BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 773
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