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Private WILLIAM SIMPSON

Service Number: 2177
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northumberland Fusiliers

1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 April 1915

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

VIII. B. 1.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard and the late Jane Simpson, of 69, Blenheim St., Newcastle-on-Tyne; husband of Agnes Hazel (formerly Simpson), of 4, Lord Byron St., Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN
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Buried or commemorated at

BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 5813
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