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Private WILLIAM JAMES SIMPSON

Service Number: S/18823
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 March 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY

XXXI. H. 15.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Simpson, of 25, Edward St., Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Native of Edinburgh.
  • Personal Inscription OH FOR A TOUCH OF THE VANISHED HAND AND A SOUND OF THE VOICE THAT IS STILL
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Buried or commemorated at

ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 11554
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