Service Details
Name:
 PURDON
Given Name:
 NORMAN CAMERON
Initials:
 N C
Service No:
 4348
Rank:
 Private
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Unit 2:
 "D" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1917-04-12
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Date of Birth:
 1891-04-24
Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.
Additional
Information:
Son of James Tarr and Elizabeth Jean Purdon, of Clumber via Grahamstown. Wounded in Delville Wood on the 15th July 1916.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 ARRAS MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Bay 10.

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