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Military service
Service number:
B/37430
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
February 21, 1916
Troy, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 27, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of James Richard and Olga Ida Purdy.
Digital gallery of Private Ivan Laverne Purdy
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Photo of Ivan Laverne Purdy
Uncle Ivan at the Cambridge armories -
Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Private IVAN LAVERNE PURDY is one of 18 members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Photo of IVAN LAVERNE PURDY
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library Collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Kitchener Public Library Collection of World War Two Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Ivan Laverne Purdy
Digital gallery of
Private Ivan Laverne Purdy
Digital gallery of
Private Ivan Laverne Purdy
Digital gallery of
Private Ivan Laverne Purdy
Digital gallery of
Private Ivan Laverne Purdy
Digital gallery of
Private Ivan Laverne Purdy
Digital gallery of
Private Ivan Laverne Purdy
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 108 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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