Arthur Purdy

Bank: Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Banking Co

Place of work: Nottingham branch

Died: 20 November 1917

Arthur Kershaw Purdy was born on 10 March 1894, the son of Francis and Emma Purdy. In March 1911 he went to work for Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Banking Co.

During the First World War Purdy left his job at the bank's Nottingham branch to join the army. By 1917 he was a Second Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Regiment, on active service in France. He died there on 20 November 1917, of wounds received in action. He was 23 years old.