James Purcell

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Labourer

Place of Residence at HM Factory Gretna 22 Dunedid Road

Biography

The Annandale Observer is not currently digitized, however a volunteer on this project is manually searching the physical copies of this paper stored at The Devil’s Porridge Museum. Purcell was mentioned in the AO on 01/02/1918 at p. 7 and column 4. He was described as a Labourer living at 22 Dunedid Road, Eastriggs and the details of the entry were ‘Matches in Factory