Participant Info

Surname

Purvis

First Name

Donald

Initial

E

Service Number

1222

Rank

lance-corporal

Unit Served

1st Battalion

Service Record

Gallipoli, France, Belgium

Enlistment Date

1914

Enlistment Month

September 16

Embarkation Year

1914

Embarkation Month

December 22

Date of Death

1917

Month of Death

September 16

Death Category

KIA

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 119, image page 120

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

John G. and Isabella Purvis

Parental Address

Glebe point

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Glebe, May 7, 1882, educated Glebe Public School, baker. Prior to cessation of hostilities, Mr. Purvis had made six voyages from Australia as baker aboard troopships. He witnessed the landing off Suvla Bay, whilst aboard the "Wiltshire", and narro