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Guardsman JOHN SIMPSON

Service Number: 2696570
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Scots Guards

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 September 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY

III. E. 44.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Andrew and Maie Swanson Simpson, of Dundee.
  • Personal Inscription "AND DUTY MARKED THE PATH HE TROD AND LOVE OF MAN AND LOVE OF GOD"
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Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1855
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