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Military service
Service number:
100180
Age:
25
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
411 "City of York" (Fighter) Squadron
Birth:
March 15, 1929
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 27, 1953
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
May 2, 1954
Beaverton, Ontario
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Section 2, North Grave, Plot 50, Row 16
Additional information
Son of William and Ada Purvis of Toronto, Ontario. Husband of Helen (nee Peters) William of Toronto, Ontario. Brother of Joyce, William, Burton and Carol.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer James Albert Purvis
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Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Albert Purvis
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 52 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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