Alexander Galbraith SIMPSON

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SIMPSON, Alexander Galbraith

Service Number:	2788
Enlisted:	1 September 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Perth, Scotland, United Kingdom, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Lameroo, Southern Mallee, South Australia
Schooling:	Perth Academy, Scotland
Occupation:	Tailor
Died:	Illness, England , United Kingdom, 12 November 1918, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Melcombe Regis Cemetery, Dorset, England Grave reference: II. C. 3059., Melcombe Regis Cemetery, Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

1 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private
27 Oct 1915:	Involvement Private, 2788, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
27 Oct 1915:	Embarked Private, 2788, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Adelaide
12 Nov 1918:	Involvement Private, 2788, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2788 awm_unit: 10 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-11-12

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Raid on Celtic Wood

2788 Private Alexander Galbraith Simpson was in the field with D Company at the time of the raid and was one of the 19 men who returned unwounded.

In Lieutenant Scott’s Red Cross File, Private Simpson when talking about the fate of Scott said he was in charge of their party. ‘Lieut Scott was killed at Celtic Wood, Passchendaele during a raid. I saw him shot but cannot say if it was by a bullet or shell fragment, now.

In Willie Campion’s Red Cross File is another statement by Private Simpson in which he told the interviewing officer he saw ‘Campion killed at Celtic wood, near Passchendaele. He was killed instantaneously by a shell.’

In 1918 Private Simpson was shot in the chest and died of Pneumonia at Monte Video Hospital, Weymouth, England in November 1918.

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