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Lance Corporal ISAAC PURVES

Service Number: L/5032
Regiment & Unit/Ship

16th (The Queen's) Lancers

Date of Death

Died 08 June 1917

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

X. B. 23.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Isaac and Jane Purves, of 58, Church St., Berwick-on-Tweed.
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Buried or commemorated at

TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2139
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