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Private WILLIAM SIMPSON

Service Number: 63964
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

"A" Coy. 2nd/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 September 1918

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GRAND RAVINE BRITISH CEMETERY, HAVRINCOURT

A. 29.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Anne Simpson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
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Buried or commemorated at

GRAND RAVINE BRITISH CEMETERY, HAVRINCOURT
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 139
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