Major General William Brooke PURDON. D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. Acting Lieutenant Colonel Royal Army Medical Corps attached Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Born 28 November 1881 at Parsonage House, Donegall Pass, Belfast Ireland to Richard James and Maud Mary Purdon, nee Corran. His father was a medical student.
Husband of Dorothy Myrtle Purdon, nee Coates who he married 17 September 1910 at St Thomas Church, City of Belfast. He was Captain, R.A.M.C. and resided at 80 Dublin Road, Belfast Ireland.
Died 2 December 1950 aged 68 in Kensington England.
Commemorated on the Coates family memorial in Donaghadee Parish Churchyard, Co Down Northern Ireland.
Edinburgh Gazette dated 15 February 1907. R.A.M.C.
The undermentioned Gentlemen to be Lieutenants
on probation. Dated 28th January, 1907 William Brooke Purdon and others.
London Gazette dated 16 February 1915. Awarded the Military Cross
No citation found for him.
London Gazette dated 1st January 1917.
Capt. (temp. Maj.) William Brooke Purdon, M.C., M.B, R.A.M.C.
London Gazette dated 29 December 1922. (O.B.E.)
The KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order, of the British Empire (to be dated 28th
December, 1922
Major William Brooke Purdon, D.S.O., M.C., M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps.
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