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Private JOHN SWINBURNE SIMPSON

Service Number: 5184198
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 May 1942

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

IMPHAL WAR CEMETERY

7. F. 22.

India

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Mary Simpson, of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription GOD CLOSED HIS EYES AND GAVE HIM REST, AND TOOK FROM US ONE OF THE BEST

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Buried or commemorated at

IMPHAL WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 1603
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