Full Name: Philip Henry PURSEY
Nationality: Canadian 
Rank: Private
Service: Canadian Pioneers
Unit: 2nd Battalion
Age at Death: 40
Date of Death: 15 Aug 1917
Service Number: 445152
Cemetery / Memorial: Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Reference: I. H. 12.
Military Records: View Philip’s Attestation Papers – front and back
EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/259220/
Philip was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1878 and married Lucy Heyman in Folkestone in April 1898. The couple emigrated to Canada in 1901 and had a total of five children.
