Name	Eric PURVIS
Rank/Number	Sergeant  / 208024
Regiment/Unit	Royal West Surrey (The Queens) Regiment / 11th Battalion
Enlisted	Aylesbury
Age/Date of death	21 / 25 Oct 1918
How died/Theatre of war	Killed in action / France & Flanders
Residence at death	Bletchley
Cemetery	Heestert Military Cemetery, Belgium
Grave Reference	C.4
Location of memorial	Loughton
Date/Place of birth	Sep qtr 1896 / Northampton
Date/Place of baptism
Occupation of Casualty	student, Beds County Agricultural Inst
Parents/Occupation	William Frederick & Mary Ann Purvis / journalist, author, editor
Parents' Address	1901: 14 Ashbourne House, Holborn, London, later Loughton
Wife
Wife's Address
Notes	formerly 265915 OBLI. Student at Ridgmont. Expert beekeeper & journalist