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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Eccles
• Land Berwickshire, Scotland
• Family Son of Mary Darrie Simpson, of 43, Bangor Rd., Leith, Edinburgh.
• Profession Warehouseman

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Leith
• Service number 40960
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 6th/7th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers

Death

• Wounded 22 August, when his battalion was in support of an attack against Beck House and Postdam Redoubt
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds buttock penetrating abdomen, in n°3 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 36
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XVIII - D - 18

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