Full Name: Philip Henry PURSEY Nationality: Canadian Rank: Private Service: Canadian Pioneers Unit: 2nd Battalion Age at Death: 40 Date of Death: 15 Aug 1917 Service Number: 445152 Cemetery / Memorial: Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France Reference: I. H. 12. Military Records: View Philip’s Attestation Papers – front and back CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/259220/PURSEY,%20PHILIP%20HENRY EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/259220/ Philip was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1878 and married Lucy Heyman in Folkestone in April 1898. The couple emigrated to Canada in 1901…
