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Major-General C W B Purdon, CBE, MC, CPM
Corran Purdon was born in Queenstown, County Cork but would spend part of his early childhood in India where his father, Major General W Brook Purdon DSO MBE MC, was serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He would be sent to school in London and Northern Ireland before attending Campbell College in Belfast and commented […]
Rifleman Arthur Oscar Berling
We recently received a note recently from Richard Berling about his grandfather Arthur, who was killed during September 1917. “My grandfather was listed as a rifleman who died whilst serving with the London Irish Rifles. He died on the 2nd September 1917 at Ypres and is buried at Mont Huon Military Cemetery. His regimental number […]