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Personal data

• Name PURKISS
• Initials W
• First name WILLIE
• Place of birth Hempstead
• Country Essex, England
• Last residence Saffron Walden
• Family Son of Samual and Susanah Purkiss.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Saffron Walden
• Service number 14822
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 11th Bn. Essex Regiment
• Division - Brigade 18th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 6th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France on 30 August 1915; epilepsy on 24 March 1916

Death

• Date of death 24 March 1916
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - D - 16A

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