Name
Ernest Victor Purkiss
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/06/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27447
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY
VI. N. 15.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born in 1881 in 5 Beulah Terrace, Leather Bottle Lane, Thornton Heath, Croydon, Surrey son of Jeremiah and Harriet Purkiss and later lived in 67 Amwell Street, Hoddesdon.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford and was killed in action at the Battle of Messines Ridge.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
