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In Ryde Borough Cemetery, Ryde, Isle of Wight Description Additional inscription on family headstone Grave location Old Cemetery Section M Plots 1855-1856 
click on image to enlarge Name : Stanley Purnell Son of : Alfred George Purnell and Elizabeth Ada Purnell (née Miles), of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Born : 1883, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Married : 4 Sep 1911, Mary Isabel Braithwaite, at Brackley, Northants. |
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Service Details : Private 764163 Stanley Purnell, "B" Coy. 1st/28th Bn., London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) Inscription
IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF
STANLEY PURNELL, [ARTIST'S RIFLES] WHO FELL IN ACTION AT PASSCHENDAELE, OCT. 30. 1917, AGED 34. FOR GOD, AND KING AND COUNTRY. ALSO OF HIS MOTHER ELIZABETH ADA, DEARLY LOVED WIFE OF A. G. PURNELL, DIED APRIL 29. 1918, AGED 55. DEATH CANNOT PART US, AND GOD WILL NOT. ALSO OF THE ABOVE NAMED ALFRED GEORGE PURNELL, AT REST DECEMBER 19. 1925. AGED 62 YEARS "COME UNTO ME YE WEARY, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST." |
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Casualty Details : Died : 30 October 1917, aged 34. Buried at : Tyne Cot Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. CWGC Record |
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See Further biographical details for more information. and RSHG entry for Stanley Purnell. |
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