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Private WILLIAM SIMPSON

Service Number: 18606
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 September 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TANCREZ FARM CEMETERY

I. J. 28.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lindsay and Susannah Simpson, of 10, Derwent St., West Stanley, Co. Durham. Enlisted in 1914.
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Buried or commemorated at

TANCREZ FARM CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 335
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