Lieutenant Colonel John Smith Purdy

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Ranks Held Lieutenant Colonel, Major Medical Officer
Birth Date 31/01/1872
Birth Place United Kingdom: England, Northumberland, Morpeth
Death Date 26/07/1936
Death Place Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Potts Point
Final Rank Lieutenant Colonel
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units
  • Australian Army Medical Corps
  • Australian Army Medical Corps
  • Australian Army Medical Corps
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Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918

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    SIGNED STUDIO PORTRAIT OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN SMITH PURDY DSO, OF THE 18TH BATTALION, AAMC.

    Outdoors group portrait of officers attached to the 10th Australian Field Ambulance. Identified ...

    General William Riddell Birdwood, Colonel John Smith Purdy, Sister Lilian Constance Keys and ...

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Date of birth 31/01/1872
Date of embarkation 20/10/1914
Date of enlistment 24/08/1914
Date of recommendation honour or award 16/06/1917
Date of recommendation honour or award 07/07/1917
Date returned to Australia 31/07/1918
Date of death 26/07/1936

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