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Private W SIMPSON

Service Number: 27941
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 31 August 1918

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SUCRERIE CEMETERY, ABLAIN-ST. NAZAIRE

V. E. 15.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 60th Trench Mortar Bty.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Elizabeth Simpson, of 75, Union St., Ardwick, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription ETERNAL REST GIVE TO HIM O LORD
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Buried or commemorated at

SUCRERIE CEMETERY, ABLAIN-ST. NAZAIRE
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 384
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