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Gunner WILLIAM ROBERT SIMPSON

Service Number: 2/2541
Regiment & Unit/Ship

New Zealand Field Artillery

10th Bty.

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL

X. H. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Born at Milltown, Southbridge Son of George Francis and Ellen Simpson, of Southbridge, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

DELVILLE WOOD CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
Somme France
Number of casualties: 5523
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