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Private A J PURCHASE

Service Number: 31762
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 February 1917

Buried or commemorated at

GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY

III. E. 26.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Trench Mortar Bty.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Brother of Mrs. E. J. Lee, of The Greenway, Dawlish, Dorchester.
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Buried or commemorated at

GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 942
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