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Private FRED SIMPSON

Service Number: 20639
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 September 1915

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL)

Becelaere German Cem. No. 1. Mem. 3.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Smith Taylor Simpson and Emma Simpson, of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Mary Louisa Simpson, of 14, West St., Hanley.
  • Personal Inscription WHO DIED AS A PRISONER OF WAR AND WAS BURIED AT THE TIME IN BECELAERE GERMAN CEMETERY BUT WHOSE GRAVE WAS DESTROYED IN LATER BATTLES THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
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