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PURVIS, Harold
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 2728 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 48th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Canning Mills, Western Australia, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Pickering Brook, Kalamunda, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Tuberculosis, Edward Millen Home, Victoria Park, Western Australia, 2 August 1923 |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Busselton Cenotaph Victoria Square |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 23 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2728, 48th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 23 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2728, 48th Infantry Battalion | |
| 3 May 1918: | Imprisoned German Spring Offensive 1918, Originally reported as missing, Germans notified that he was a captured at Armeins France and interred at LeGarette, Gottingen, Hanover, Germany and badly wounded. | |
| 3 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2728, 48th Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, Severe gun shot wound to thigh. Repatriated from Germany through Holland and admitted to 1st London General Hospital. Leg amputated to thigh on 6 December 1918 | |
| 5 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2728, 48th Infantry Battalion, Discharged Medically unfit in Perth |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
He was the eldest of five children born to Barbara Purvis. Barbara was the daughter of John Purvis (Snr.), an expiree who worked in the Quindalup area as a blacksmith, and Mattie, a woman of Aboriginal descent.