The Captain Douglas Gordon Purdy Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.
Douglas Purdy was born in 1920, attended Mount Royal College and enlisted into the 14th Army Tank, Calgary Regiment of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Purdy’s regiment was the first tank regiment of the Canadian army to go into battle with the enemy and the first engaged in amphibious assault during the Second World War. Purdy was killed in action during the Battle of Dieppe at the age of 22. He drowned when his tank sank one hundred yards from shore, struck bottom and took on water.
