Lieutenant E. F. Purcell

Regiment: Irish Guards
Panel reference: Pier and Face 7 D.
Date published: 24/11/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 16/09/1916
Age at death: 24
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Information: Lieutenant E. F. Purcell, Irish Guards, younger son of the late Mr. Matthew John Purcell, Burton Park, Buttevant, Co. Cork, and of Mrs. Purcell, Curraghmount, Buttevant, was killed in the glorious charge of the Guards on September 16th. Lieut. Purcell was at the time machine-gun officer for his regiment. He was educated at Beaumont College, Windsor, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took an honours degree after a particularly brilliant scholastic career. Shortly after the outbreak of the war he went to France as a driver for the Red Cross, and subsequently obtained his commission in the Irish Guards. In July, 1915, he went to France with the 2nd Batt. He took part in the battle of Loos.