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Corporal CHARLES BERESFORD SIMPSON

Service Number: 4460695
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Durham Light Infantry

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 June 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XI. L. 25.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Lucy Simpson, of Washington Station, Co. Durham; husband of Gladys Simpson, of Kimblesworth, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription A LOVELY MEMORY WARM AND TRUE FOR ONE WHO THOUGHT THE WORLD OF YOU
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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