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Pte. Alfred Purvis
British Army 13th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
(d.15th Mar 1917)
Alfred Purvis enlisted Walker Newcastle and served in the 13th (Service) Battalion (Forest of Dean Pioneers)Gloucestershire Regiment. He was killed in action on the 15th March 1917. He is remembered at Palmers Cenotaph, St. Paul's Church and is buried in Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery.
Alfred's Medal Card shows the award of the British War and Victory Medals. It also notes an alias of Ross W, but a statuary declaration made on the 2nd May 1916 before his death corrects this. Alfred would only have been 15 in 1914 so was probably under age when joining under the alias name. In the 1911 census Alfred 12 and his sister Anne 14, a servant are living with their parents Alfred 45, a dock labourer and his wife of 16 years Sarah Jane (46).
