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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Field Artillery
Division:
A Bty. 79th Bde.
Enlistment:
Ontario
Death:
August 7, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 17.
Additional information
Son of Douglas and Clara Simpson, of 31, Kendal Avenue, Toronto.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 573 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Gorre is a hamlet 2.5 kilometres east of Beuvry. Leave Beuvry on the D72, crossing the railway and then the Canal d'Aire on the way. The Cemetery is 150 metres from the church in Gorre, to the left of the D72.
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