Reginald Austin SIMPSON

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SIMPSON, Reginald Austin

Service Number:	PA1260
Enlisted:	20 November 1939, Port Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Telegrapher
Last Unit:	HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
Born:	Queenstown, South Australia, 10 April 1917
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Employee of General Motors Holdens.
Died:	Killed in Action, Indian Ocean, 20 November 1941, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" At Sea
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Birkenhead HMAS Sydney (II) D48 Memorial, Carnarvon HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Carnarvon Walk of Remembrance, Geraldton HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea

World War 2 Service

20 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Ordinary Seaman, PA1260, HMAS Cerberus (Shore), Port Adelaide, South Australia
20 Nov 1939:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Seaman, PA1260
20 Nov 1941:	Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Telegrapher, PA1260, HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Austin Clifford Simpson and Alma Mary Simpson; husband of Elsvey Joyce Simpson, of Quorn, South Australia.

Ord. Telegraphist Reg Simpson, 24, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Simpson. He was in the naval reserve from 1934 until the outbreak of war, when he was called up. He was married and had been employed at Holden's.

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