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Private THOMAS SIMPSON

Service Number: 13481
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 March 1918

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

X. E. 16.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Benjamin and Mary Simpson, of Otley, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription WAR'S BITTER COST A DEAR LIFE LOST
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Buried or commemorated at

DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2167
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