Memorial Plaque (Stanley Joseph Purcell) very fine £60-£80

Stanley Joseph Purcell attested for the Rifle Brigade and served as a Corporal with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 June 1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 4 November 1916, he died of wounds just five months later, on 26 March 1917, whilst serving with the Brigade in the Middle East. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial.