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Personal data

• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Bromley
• Land Kent, England
• Last residence Luton
• Family Son of Mr. Carl Maria Simeons and Edith Susanah, of "Dudley," Blyth Rd., Bromley, Kent.
• Education nautical training College, HMS Worcester
• Profession Apprentice to the British Gelatine Works
• Extra info Signed the Visitors' Book of Talbot House on 11 February 1916, on his way back to his battalion

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment August 1914
• Rank Captain
• Regiment and unit 8th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment
• Other data related to military career To France on 30 August 1915;
  Arrived in France as a Lieutenant with the battalion in August 1915 and on 24th September was promoted to Temporary Captain; Battle of Loos; acute tonsillitis while on leave; returned 10 February 1916

Death

• Wounded 15 February, on patrol; Canal Bank
• Type of wounds Wounded in the head and left thigh by machine gun fire, fractured right arm; died in n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery II - A - 35

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