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Signalman JOHN WILLIAM PURCELL

Service Number: 2589375
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 07 August 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY

8. H. 48.

Thailand

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. III Indian Signal Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Philip and Barbara Purcell, of Roby, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription REMEMBRANCE, GOD'S GREATEST GIFT. UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY
Thailand
Number of casualties: 6982
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