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Gunner EDWIN JOSEPH SIMPKINS

Service Number: 11005309
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

65 (The Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regt.

Date of Death

Died 21 November 1945

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KIEL WAR CEMETERY

6. D. 7.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Omar and Mary Elizabeth Simpkins; husband of Susannah Simpkins, of Wombourne, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription ALWAYS REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVED ONES
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Buried or commemorated at

KIEL WAR CEMETERY
Schleswig-Holstein Germany
Number of casualties: 993
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