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Private JOHN WILLIAM PURDY

Service Number: 4622202
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Essex Regiment

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 January 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY

XII. B. 13.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John William and Ruth Ann Purdy, of Leeds, Yorkshire, England; husband of Eileen Myrel Purdy, of Lower Wortley, Leeds.
  • Personal Inscription "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS" HE LIVES IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM
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