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Corporal WILLIAM HENRY SIMPSON

Service Number: 240406
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

"B" Coy. 1st/6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 January 1918

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RUE-PETILLON MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX

I. G. 33.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Mary Elizabeth Dearden (formerly Simpson), of 34, South Lane, Rochdale.
  • Personal Inscription TILL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

RUE-PETILLON MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1523
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