Detail victim

Name SIMEONS
Initials EE
First name EDWARD EMIL
Place of birth Bromley
Country 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

Place & date of enlistment August 1914
Rank Captain
Regiment and unit 8th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment
Division - Brigade 16th Brigade
Army - Corps - Division 6th Division
National force B.E.F.
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

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
Date of death 17 February 1916
Died at the age of 22
Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery II - A - 35
Related (battlefield) cemeteries for this unit & period LA BRIQUE MILITARY CEMETERY No.2 ; MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY ; ESSEX FARM CEMETERY