In Memory Of
PURDON, NORMAN CAMERON
Service Details
Age:
25
Date of Birth:
1891-04-24
Service No:
4348
Rank:
Private
Unit:
1st Regt.
Unit 2:
"D" Coy.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1917-04-12
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Bay 10.
Cemetery:
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of James Tarr and Elizabeth Jean Purdon, of Clumber via Grahamstown. Wounded in Delville Wood on the 15th July 1916.
