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Pte. D. S. Simmons
Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Francis George Simmons
British Army 6th Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
(d.28th April 1917)
Gnr. H. Simmons
British Army Bermuda Militia Artillery
(d.24th July 1920)
Gunner Simmons is buried in the St. George's Military Cemetery in Bermuda.
Pte. James W. Simmons
British Army 6th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Handsworth, Sheffield
(d.19th Aug 1916)
James Simmons was the son of Jonathan and Jane Simmons, of Jellicoe Street, Langwith, Mansfield and husband of Elizabeth Ann Simmons, of 13 Holyoake Avenue, Richmond, Handsworth, Sheffield. He died aged 23, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
Pte. John Westrope Simmons
British Army 32nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers
Pte. Joseph D. Simmons
British Army 12th Btn. Gloucester Regiment
from:Bishopsworth
(d.5th October 1917)
Pte. Patrick Simmons
Australian Imperial Forces 33rd Btn.
from:Tamworth, New South Wales.
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. Samuel Frederick Simmons
British Army 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Bristol
(d.28th Sep 1916)
Edgar Simms
Army 7th Service Battalion Yorks and Lancs Regiment (Pioneers)
My grandfather, Edgar Simms, served with the 7th Service Battalion Yorks and Lancs Regiment (Pioneers) from 1915-1917. He did survive the war, but 44 of his pals in A company did not return. My husband and I have found the final resting place of those who have known graves and in September we are returning to the Somme area to place poppy crosses on all of the graves in the area. Next year, we shall visit Belgium and place the rest of the crosses on the graves in the Passchendaele area and the final crosses at the Menin Gate during the 90th anniversary of that battle. If anyone has family members with graves in either area we will be more than happy to visit the graves and place a poppy for them.
Pte. Frederick A. Simms
British Army 7th (Service) Battalion Royal Gloucesters
(d.25th Jan 1917)
My Great Uncle Fred Simms was killed in the Battle of Hai Salient on the morning of 25th of Jan 1917.
Cpl. Herbert Simms
British Army 19th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Goole, West Riding of Yorkshire
(d.2nd April 1917)
Pte. Joseph Simms
British Army Royal Warwickshire Regiment
My grandfather, Joseph Simms was in the Expeditionary Force in France. He survived the war but remained in ill health until he died young at 59.
Gnr. William Simms
British Army 232nd Brigade, B Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:West Bromwich
(d.1st July 1916)
William Simms was the son of Mr & Mrs Simms of West Bromwich. He is buried at Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines Cemetery. Died aged 21.
Pte. Harry Simon
British Army 1st Btn. 4 Coy. Coldstream Guards
from:Batley, Yorks
(d.1st Aug 1917)
Harry Simon served with 1st Bn. Coldstream Guards and lost his life on the 1st of August 1917. Aged 22, he was the son of Henry and Ada Simon of 6, West Park Terrace, Healey, Batley, Yorks.
Pte. Frederick Charles Simons
British Army 9th Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
from:Enstone, Oxfordshire
(d.2nd Feb 1915)
Frederick Simons served with the 9th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Pte. Guy Simons
British Army 1st/8th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Prittlewell, Essex
(d.19th September 1916)
Guy Simons was the second son of Emily and Alfred Simons of Prittlewell, Essex. He enlisted on the 24th of March 1916, aged 18. He is listed as a Furniture Assistant and was 5ft 7 1/2". He is recorded as killed in action on the 19th of September 1916. His Brigade was in the area of Leuze Wood and Bouleaux Wood and 245 Other Ranks died between 15th and 18th of September 1916.
He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. I am a proud sprig on his family tree
Capt Harold J Simons
British Army King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Pte. John Edward Simons
British Army 2/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Newton-by-Toft
(d.21st Mar 1918)
The Roll of Honour in St Martin’s Church lists a John E. Simons as having died in 1917. Research suggests that the listed man was quite probably John Edward Simons, who was born at Stickney in Lincolnshire. It appears there may be a family connection to South Willingham with John’s aunt and uncle living in the village; certainly John Simons gives his ‘place of residence’ as ‘South Willingham Lincoln’ on his Attestation Form. John signed his Attestation Form at Louth on 16th of February 1916. His occupation was given as ‘farm horseman’ and his age as 18 years and 124 days on the day of his enlistment; the following day he was placed on the Army Reserve List. Physically, he was described as being 5ft 6ins tall, weighing 136 lbs, with a chest measurement of 36ins. A little over a year later, on 26th of April 1917, he was mobilised and the following day transferred to The Depot, Lincolnshire Regiment as Private 38120 John Edward Simons.
He was posted to the 3rd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment on 12th May 1917 at Grimsby. On 4th August 1917 he was posted to the 10th (Service) Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment. The ‘Army Form B.103 Casualty Form – Active Service’ is a somewhat misleading document as it is not, as its title suggests, purely for the purpose of recording injury or death. With dates recorded under the ‘casualty’ columns on the form this may explain why the Roll of Honour in St Martin’s Church records his date of death as 1917? But John Simons had yet to meet his end and was transferred to the 2/6th Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment (No. 40892) on 23 August 1917. Unfortunately, those records that do remain are not entirely legible but it seems that he became a casualty during 1917 as he was admitted to a Field Ambulance Station in France on 23rd of October as a ‘casualty in the field’.
Not yet having attained his Majority, the young man who had given his place of residence as ‘South Willingham, Lincoln’ during his Attestation just over two years earlier, became another soldier with no known grave when he was reported missing in the field on 21 March 1918. His name is recorded on the Arras Memorial (as well as on a hand-written scroll in St Martin’s Church South Willingham, a memorial tablet situated in the church at Holton-cum-Beckering and a wooden plaque inside the same church) and his father took receipt of John’s Victory Medal and British War Medal at the family home in Holton cum Beckering. Before he was called up, John Simons is recorded in the 1911 Census as being a farm labourer (aged 13 years), the family living at the time at Top Barn Hatton, near Wragby. It may be that five years later, upon enlistment, he was working on a farm at South Willingham, or simply living with relations as stated by current relatives, which is why he gave his place of residence as South Willingham.
2nd.Lt. N. T. Simpkin
British Army 173rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Second Lieutenant Simpkin served with B Battery, 173rd Brigade, RFA.
Pte. Sanford Lional Simpkins
British Army M.T. att. XXII. Corps Y Ammunition Park. Army Service Corps
from:Kensington, Bath
(d.3rd Jan 1918)
Sanford Simpkins was killed in action on 3rd of January 1918, aged 22. He is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery in Belgium, son of William and Alma Rose Simpkins, of 5, Worcester Terrace, Kensington, Bath.
Lt. Simpson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Lt Simpson served with C Coy 18th DLI.
Sister. Simpson
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 16 Stationary Hospital
Pte. Alexander Herd Simpson
British Army 7th Battalion Black Watch
from:St Andrews
My grandfather Alec Simpson joined the Fife Territorial Battalion, the 7th Black Watch during WWI, he was probably recruited in St Andrews where he was living at the time and working as a golf club maker. He then went to Kinghorn Fort on the south coast of Fife near Kirkaldy for training and to assist in coastal defence and sent a photo home from there on 9th of April 1915 showing him dressed as an MP. While fighting near Festubert in France on about 24th May 1915 Alec was wounded in the thigh and the shoulder and spent the night in no man's land waiting to be rescued. He was then saved by Captain C.H. Maxwell and sent to Edmonton Military Hospital in Silver Street, North London. It was there he met my grandmother, a nurse and they fell in love and were later married. He had many operations on his leg and always walked with a limp and used a cane. My grandmother kept the newspaper clipping regarding his injury but I don't know what newspaper it came from. If anyone knows I would love to find out. I also have a group photo showing him dressed as an MP, maybe your family member is in the photo?
The article reads: Another man who fared badly out in the open was Pte. A. H. Simpson, formerly a golf club maker with Messrs Forgan, St Andrews. Sergt. Cecil ? also a lad from the “Grey City”, saw him fall; but as Alick immediately lit a cigarette, it was thought that his wounds were slight. Next morning, however, while we were all busy at our allotted tasks, a faint cry was heard from "No Man's Land," and a soldier was seen to be lying a considerable distance in front of our line. Word was sent round to Captain C.H. Maxwell, our Anstruther officer, that there seemed to be one of our men lying out in the open. When next the call came, Captain Maxwell shouted in reply, "Hello, who are you?" "I belong to the 7th Black Watch." came the response.
A Gallant Captain.
Without a moment's hesitation the gallant Captain, calling upon someone to accompany him, jumped over the parapet, and made his way in the direction from which the call had come. Sergt. Douglas F. Adamson - "Big Dob" as we used to call our popular Cupar comrade - and Pte. William Winton, Milton of Balgonie, were close at Captain Maxwell's heels. Together they reached the wounded man, who proved to be Pte. Simpson. Captain Maxwell and Pte. Winton immediately carried him in, and as they raised him he pointed to a shell-hole nearby, where lay L/Cpl. W.B. Watson, a fellow-townsman of Captain Maxwell. Poor Watson had been severely peppered by machine gun fire, and succumbed to his wounds. Sergt. Adamson at once raised him on his shoulders, and he, too, was brought back into our own lines.
The machine gun section, under Lieut. A. C. Westwood, had also been having their own share of the casualties, and the first Cupar member of our battalion lost his life here. This was Pte. John Pratt, previously an ironmonger, with Capt. T. J. Robertson’s firm. He had been out making a sap for the machine gun in front of the line, when a shrapnel shell came over. A fragment hit him on the head, and he died almost immediately. Two other Cupar men were wounded by the flying metal – Pte. William Smith, who, singularly enough, had entered the trenches on his nineteenth birthday, and Pte. David.
Cpl. Arthur Simpson
British Army 1st/6th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Chapel-en-le-Frith
(d.25th Nov 1915)
Arthur Simpson was my grandfather. He served with the Sherwood Foresters 1st/6th Battalion. He died on 25th November 1915 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial
Pte. Arthur William Simpson
British Army 1st Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Grimsby
Arthur Simpson enlisted on the 3rd of June 1916, aged 24. We know he was first posted to the 7th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment and later may have been moved to the 1st Battalion on the 25th of August 1918. He was wounded in battle on the 7th of November 1918 and lost a leg. Eventually discharged on the 3rd of July 1919, at that time he had one child, but went on to have three more. He passed away on the 3rd of January 1970, aged 78.
Pte. C. R. Simpson
British Army 17th (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) Battalion London Regiment
Pte. Charles Simpson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
2nd Lt. David Caldow Simpson
British Army Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:London
David Caldow Simpson joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps as a temporary 2nd lieutenant and served in the trenches in France, then transferred to the RFC. Listed in the London Gazette 18 October receiving a temporary commission in the RAF as '2nd Lieutenant, Observer Officer'. After the war he founded a transport company called Holme & Simpson, later North British Transport. During WW2 he was an Army Welfare Officer with the rank of Captain and organised entertainment. Founder member of the Road Haulage Association and became Freeman of City of London in 1946. Died 2nd March 1969.
Pte. Ernest William Simpson
British Army 1st Battalion West Yorkshire
from:Louth, Lincolnshire
(d.28th Sep 1916)
Cpl. Frederick Charles Wilfred Simpson
British Army 55th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
from:Barnsbury, London
(d.22nd Aug 1918)
Born October 1898 in Clerkenwell, London, Frederick Simpson was the first child of Emma and Frederick Simpson. He followed his father into the print industry as a ledger clerk. Prior to enlisting he was a volunteer in the Rifles Corps. He enlisted on the 27th of May 1916 in Grantham. He was 17 at the time and lied about his age saying that he was 19.He went to Flanders as part of the Machine Gun Corps and served with the 55th and/or 58th Battalion, records contradict. He died of wounds on 22nd of August 1918 and was buried in Pernes British Cemetery in France.
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