Service Details
Name:
 PURDON
Given Name:
 WILLIAM WILFRED
Initials:
 W W
Service No:
 834
Rank:
 Gunner
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Regiment:
 South African Heavy Artillery
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Unit:
 125th Siege Bty.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-28
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Arras
Additional
Information:
Son of Joseph Jacobus and Katherine Purdon, of 11, Seventh Street, La Rochelle, Johannesburg. Born Cape Town. A printer
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES
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Grave Reference:
 IV. D. 28.

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