Guy Le Burn SIMMONDS

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Service Number:	2042
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	56th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Littlehampton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, 28 December 1896
Home Town:	Karangi, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 15 May 1917, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coffs Harbour Karangi Honour Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

23 Jun 1916:	Involvement Private, 2042, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Barambah embarkation_ship_number: A37 public_note: ''
23 Jun 1916:	Embarked Private, 2042, 56th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Barambah, Sydney

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Births Mar 1897 Simmonds Guy Le Burn E. Preston 2b 365
E. Preston is an alternative name for East Preston and it is in the county of Sussex.

He was 20 and the son of Ida Holliday (formerly Simmonds) Windmill House, Peel Common, Fareham and the late Harry Simmonds.

He is one of five Australian casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Fareham War Memorial

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