George Bell Purvis was my gran's cousin, so my third cousin. The affection felt for him by his superiors and those he lead is obvious when reading the letters the family received after his death. His brother, who also served, was Stanley Purvis, who later became a Canon at York Minster and translated the York Mystery Plays into English. Stanley Purvis went to Belgium after George's death and is the author of The Steyning Poem, first published under the pseudonym Philip Johnson.

Andy Jackson