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Private W SIMPSON

Service Number: 36764
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

Date of Death

Died 14 July 1917

Buried or commemorated at

HAWICK (WELLOGATE) CEMETERY

Parochial. 5418.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (221172) 452nd Home Service Employment Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Personal Inscription LIFE IS BRIEF, GLORY ETERNAL HE HAS JOINED HIS MOTHER IN HEAVEN
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Buried or commemorated at

HAWICK (WELLOGATE) CEMETERY
Roxburghshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 50
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