. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 410 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. Dec 19, 1918. the war, and was seriously wounded at the Battle of Fromelles during the Somme campaign of 1916. Afterwards he was stationed in Ireland for a time on instruc- tional work at the Remedial Camp at- tached to the depot at Ballyvonare. Whilst here he took a prominent part in Irish Army football and athletics gener- ally, and collaborated in a book of Army games for wounded men. He also quali- fied at the Ourragh and Aldershot in gym- nastic and physical training work. Subse- quently volunteering and r
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 410 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. Dec 19, 1918. the war, and was seriously wounded at the Battle of Fromelles during the Somme campaign of 1916. Afterwards he was stationed in Ireland for a time on instruc- tional work at the Remedial Camp at- tached to the depot at Ballyvonare. Whilst here he took a prominent part in Irish Army football and athletics gener- ally, and collaborated in a book of Army games for wounded men. He also quali- fied at the Ourragh and Aldershot in gym- nastic and physical training work. Subse- quently volunteering and returning to the Front. After being again wounded, Sergt. Purvis rejoined his regiment near Coiirt,- â rai in October, iand was killed about three weeks later, on the Belgian frontier. Born at Northampton, Sergt. Purvis spent his school days in the outer suburbs of London. He was educated at the Croy- don Modern School, and as a boy dis- played keen interest in natural history, inheriting this from his father, the most clever, scientific journalist in Great Bri- tain, whose knowledge of rural science is encyclopaedic. Removing to Buckingham- shire he was prominently associated with the Boy Scout movement, and went for. THE LATE SERGT. E. PURVIS. two sessions to the Farm Institute at Ridgmont, on the Duke of Bedford's estate. Here he was a pupil of mine in bee-keeping, and speedily developed .into a most enthusiastic apiarist. On leaving Ridgmont he started at Loughton (Bucks.) an apiary of 15 hives, and de- voted himself to various lines of experi- mental work, notably in connection with alleged cures for " Isle of Wight " disease. He took a number of prizes for honey locally, including a second at the county show at Bletchley. The late Mr. Gunthorpe, .a veteran bee- keeper, at this time lived in the same vil- lage, and in a series of .articles in the Smallholder and elsewhere, Sergt. Purvis blended ingeniously the mature wisdom of his experienced neighbour and the la
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