E Simpson . British Army E Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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EB Simpson . British Army Cheshire Regiment EB Simpson served with the Cheshire Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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EC Simpson . British Army EC Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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ER Simpson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps ER Simpson served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt. Eric Simpson . British Army 1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery Royal Artillery The 1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery of the 1st Airborne Division, famous for their exploits at Arnhem in 1944, actually made history at Netheravon.
A gun team flew in a Horsa Glider with a full load of 6pdr gun and Jeep, on Saturday 26th September 1942, for the very first time in history. The gun team included :- Sgt Holmes, Bmbdr Les Towell, gunners Harry Townsend, Frank Greaney and Lance-Bmbdr Richard Flaherty. My father Sgt Eric Simpson was also a member of this Battery.
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F Simpson . British Army F Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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L/Cpl. Francis Arthur Simpson . British Army 4th Btn. Buffs (East Kent) Regiment from Luton, Bedfordshire I began this quest when I decided to take a close look at my father's, Francis Simpson's, dog tags from Stalag 11A where he spent that last year of the war. This, together with many papers that my mother had saved, led me to his service record, then to here. I am now also researching my maternal father's record and my paternal father's records, both of whom survived the First World War.
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Sgt. Fred Simpson . British Army 146th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps from Leeds My grandfather Fred Simpson was in 146 Field Ambulance as a territorial in 1937 and went to war with them. The 4 tapes held by the Imperial War Museum give an amazing amount of details of 146th's first few years of the war. He served at the 30th General Hospital in Britain and Iceland and also 32nd Casualty Clearing Station.
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Pte. Frederick Simpson . British Army 16th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment from 6 Pike Lane, Northampton Fred Simpson was wounded twice, he took part in the Battle of Anzio.
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G Simpson . British Army G Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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GB Simpson . British Army GB Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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GD Simpson . British Army GD Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt. George Robert Simpson . British Army Durham Light Infantry from Stanhope, County Durham I am trying to find out information about my Dad, George Simpson. I know he was taken prisoner and was classed as missing pressumed dead. He managed to get a postcard out of his POW camp which arrived at Christmas to say he was alive. I am not sure where he was captured or for how long. It's not a lot of info but if anybody knew of him I would love to hear from you.
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L/Cpl George "Dick" Simpson . British Army
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George Robert Wilfred Simpson . British Army Reconnaissance Corps George Simpson served with the Reconnaissance Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sto George Simpson . Royal Navy HMS Aurora from Newcastle upon Tyne
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Gerald Anthony Simpson . RAF 78 Sqd (d.28th Apr 1942) My uncle, Sergeant Gerald Anthony Simpson was a pilot in 76 Squadron based at Middleton St George during the 2nd World War. He was killed in action over France on April 28th 1942 and is buried in Dunkirk Town Cemetery. I know some of his crew survived the crash landing. I would be very interested to know more about his service at Middleton St George, the circumstance of his death and if any of the crew are still alive today
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H Simpson . British Army H Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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H Simpson . British Army H Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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H Simpson . British Army Royal Armoured Corps H Simpson served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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HC Simpson . British Army HC Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Henry Simpson . British Army Gordon Highlanders My uncle, Gordon Highlander Henry Simpson from Maud, was a POW at Lamsdorf 344 (Stalag 8b). He was part of a group called the Lamsdorf Loons.
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HS Simpson . British Army HS Simpson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Able Sea. Hugh Simpson . Royal Navy HMS Pembroke from Arminghall, Norfolk (d.13th Oct 1944) Hugh Simpson was a distant relative of mine who must have been very distressed because he committed suicide on 13th of October 1944 by drowning himself in Chatham South Dock.
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Flight Sergeant J O Simpson . RAAF 460 Squadron
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Pte. James Alexander "Tufty" Simpson . British Army 2nd Btn. Seaforth Highlanders from Elgin, Morayshire (d.4th Jun 1940) James Simpson was born in 1914 in Elgin, Morayshire. He was the eldest of three boys to Alexander and Elsie Simpson.
James enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders aged 14yrs at Fort George and was a drummer boy. James re-enlisted in 1938 for a further 12 years and returned home immediately before the outbreak of war. James was still serving in the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders at that time.
On 18th of January 1940 the Battalion was at Aldershot and was inspected by King George V1.
On the 26th of January the 4th Battalion sailed for France and was moved into position in the Maginot Line in the Saar Valley, France. The German advance in May 1940 bypassed the Maginot Line and the 51st Highland Division fell back to a new position on the Somme at Abbeville.
It was stationed in front of the Ouvrage Hackenberg fortress of the Maginot Line and had thus escaped being encircled with the rest of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. It was then pulled back to a new line roughly along the River Somme, where it was attached to the French Tenth Army.
For some time, it was forced to hold a line four times longer than that which would normally be expected of a division. The Division was attacked very heavily over 4th to 6thof June and it was on 4th June that James was reported missing in action believed killed during the attack on bridgeheads opposite Abbeville on the Somme.
James is remembered on the Elgin War Memorial
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Pte. James Duncan Gowans Simpson . British Army 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders from Aberdeen I received a full uniform set (tunic, kilt and accoutrements) belonging to James Simpson along with a series of documents.
These included two paybooks and two certificates of service detailing his interwar, wartime, and postwar regular and reserve service.
Simpson was born in 1906, and initially joined the Gordons on 11th of January 1925.
Being recalled in 1937, he went to France with the BEF and was at some point captured by the German Forces. He spent the majority of the war confined to Stalag XXB as PoW 19186 before being released at the end of the war.
He received the 1939-45 star, the France-Germany Medal and the War Medal.
He rejoined the Gordons in 1947, transferred to the HLI in 1948, before finally being discharged in 1950.
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Pte. James Henry Simpson . British Army 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry from Harwich, Essex (d.23rd Apr 1944) Jimmy Simpson was killed on Garrison Hill tennis courts in Burma on the 23rd April 1944 aged 21 years. This is the only information I have.
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JG Simpson . British Army Gordon Highlanders JG Simpson served with the Gordon Highlanders British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Jim Simpson . RAAF 460 Squadron I just came across your website and thought you may be interested in Jim Simpson's story. He was 19 years old when he was sent to fight the war and was shot down on his first mission and captured by the Germans. Jim is still alive, 92 years old, independent and living in his own home on his farm. His story regarding the knitting of a rug whilst a POW in Stalag IVb can be found on the following website:
http://www.manfromsnowyrivermuseum.com/home/rug.htm.
The Man from Snowy River Museum is currently raising funds to enable us to build a room to house Jim's rug and ensure it is preserved as best it can, to enable visitors to marvel at the resilience of the human spirit and what can be achieved in adverse conditions.
The crew of the 460 Sqd Lancaster were:
F/S E.J.Ellery RAAF
W/C R.A.Norman DFC RAAF
Sgt L.E.P.Wells
F/S D.S.Thomas
F/S J.O.Simpson RAAF
Sgt G.E.Cleverly
Sgt D.O'Donoghue
Sgt P.F.Kills
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