Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Additions will be checked before being published on the website and where possible will be forwarded to the person who submitted the original entries. Your contact details will not be forwarded, but they can send a reply via this messaging system.
please scroll down to send a message
2116
Pte William Simm
British Army 15th Btn Cheshire Regiment
from:Wooler, Northumberland
(d.21st Oct 1916)
Simm, William. Private, 23379, Killed in action on 21st October 1916. Aged 22 years.
Buried in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Somme, in grave VI. C. 1.
The 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers records show that Pte Simm was a member of the 19th Btn with service number 19/396. He had transferred to the 15th Btn, Cheshire Regiment and was killed with them.
Son of Jane Ann and the late John Simm, of Wooler, Northumberland.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.