Name
Arthur James Purfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
NA
Pre War
Note: A full biography for Jim, is provided in the HAW Archive under Hertfordshire Men & Women - Individuals Stories.
Jim Purfield, grew up in Cobham, North Kent. His father, a grocer, sent him to Hitchin to learn the grocery trade with W B Moss. He boarded in Letchworth. At the outbreak of war, he enlisted in Hitchin, but went home to Kent to join the 8th Queens Own Royal West Kents.
Wartime Service
Jim Purfield served in France throughout the war and afterwards was Manager of Moss's shop in Shefford for many years.
Acknowledgments
Alistair Riach
