Service Details
Name:
 PURVES
Given Name:
 WILLIAM OGILVIE
Initials:
 W O
Service No:
 4426
Rank:
 Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 2nd Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1916-07-18
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Age:
 34
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds
Additional
Information:
Son of William Ogilvie and Jessie Purves, of Edinburgh.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 LA NEUVILLE BRITISH CEMETERY, CORBIE
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Grave Reference:
 I. C. 25.

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