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Lance Corporal JOHN MARSHALL SIMPSON

Service Number: 1631
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 April 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

VIII. A. 105.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Batley Simpson and Mary Ann Simpson, of 11, Kitchener St., Darlington.
  • Personal Inscription FATHER IN THY GRACIOUS KEEPING LEAVE WE NOW THY SERVANT SLEEPING

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Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5813
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