Photo: Coldstream & District LHS
Photo: Janet Brown
In Norham St.Cuthbert's Churchyard is a family headstone for Purvis which reads:
In
loving memory
of
George Purvis
who died at Horncliffe
March 29th 1933 aged 78 years.
Cpl. Wm. Purvis
M.M. & Bar 149th Coy. M.G.C.
son of the above
who fell in action
June 26th 1917, aged 27 years
interred in Croisilles Brit.Cem. France.
Also Euphemia Christison
youngest daughter
of the above, who died
June 7th 1938, aged 35 years.
Also Elizabeth Maxwell
wife of the above
George Purvis
who died at Monkseaton
Sept. 9th 1945 aged 87 years.
Acknowledgments: Tony Harding
William Purvis is remembered in Norham on N27.02 and at Horncliffe on H69.01
