Name

Name:- Purves, William James

Nationality:- UK

Age :- 21

Rank:- Corporal

Number:- 1585

Medal:-

Service:- Army

Regiment / ship:- 12^{th Light Armoured Motor Bn., Machine
Gun Corps. (Motors)}

^{Date of death:-}^{26th March 1917}

^{Cemetery / Memorial:-} ^{Jerusalem Memorial, Israel}

^{Area of cemetery / memorial :-} ^{Panel 56}

^{Family information:-} ^{Son of William and Agnes Duncanson Purves, Totonto
Villa, Woodside, Coupar Angus, Perthshire}

^{Extra information:-}
^{I think this is the family in 1901. Purves is an unusual name in Perthshire.}

^{22, Kyle Park, Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland}

^{William Purves, head, 47, laundryman, b. Crailing, Roxburghshire}

^{Agnes Purves, wife, 47, b. Carnock, Fifeshire}

^{Helen M Purves, daughter, 15, scholar, b. Glasgow, Lanarkshire}

^{Agnes Purves, daughter, 13, scholar, b. Glasgow}

^{Hilda M Purves, daughter, 8, scholar, b. Bothwell}

^{William J Purves, son, 5, b. Bothwell}

^{Mary Y Thomson, general servant, 18, b. Bothwell}