Name
Charles Purkis
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/02/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/535
King's Royal Rifle Corps
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY
I.D.13
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
St. Mary's Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born at Rickmansworth about 1898, lived at Kingsbury, Middlesex. Son of Mr. H V and Mrs. E Purkis of 2, Roe End, Kingsbury, London NW.
In the 1911 census the family is living at 9 Station Road, Rickmansworth. His father Harry Victor, a boarding house keeper, mother Ellen Fanny both 45, his sister Kelly 15 and he is 13.
Recorded as enlisting in Marylebone, London.
Wartime Service
Killed in action at Pilkem Road on 17th February 1916 in trench warfare as the enemy shelled the canal bank northeast of Ypres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
