Service Details
Name:
 SIMPSON
Given Name:
 JOHN BAIN
Initials:
 J B
Service No:
 12184
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Infantry
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Unit:
 1st Regt.
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Date of Death:
 1917-09-20
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Age:
 37
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Menin Road)
Additional
Information:
Son of Daniel Simpson, of Perth; husband of Janet Baird Muirhead (formerly Simpson), of Pathhead, New Cumnock, Scotland. Born Abernethy 1880. An engine driver with South African Railways. Enlisting at Potchefstroom on 26 February 1917 for the 1st Battalion, South African Infantry, he embarked for England at Cape Town per H.M.T. Galway Castle on 10 March 1917 and joined the 1st Regiment on the Western Front on 3 July 1917. Witnessing the early autumn rains which turned the battlefield into a quagmire before he was killed in action
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Ieper, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 15 - 16 and 16A.

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