CEF Discharge Certificate of Pte Torry Purdy, Scout/Sniper Platoon of the 72nd Battalion, CEF. It was dated 8 June 1919. The certificate notes that he had received a gunshot wound to the left forearm [by a sniper], a knife wound to the right forearm and he had a scar on the right side of his neck [from a shell fragment]. Attached to Media. This certificate is only a photocopy. The original was kept by the donor. 1031320, Pte Torry Estabrooks Purdy had originally enlisted with the 236th (McLean's Kilties) Battalion, CEF as he was from Amherst, Nova Scotia. Purdy arrived in France on 8 March 1918. He was wounded on 30 March, 1918 and again on 11 August, 1918.