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Corporal WALTER PURDHAM

Service Number: 963
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Border Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1915

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

VIII. A. 56.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Mary Purdham, of 1A, Lonsdale St., Workington, Cumberland.
  • Personal Inscription THE BLOOD OF HEROES IS THE SEED OF FREEDOM
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Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5813
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