SIMPSON, James David
| Service Number: | 565 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Waratah, New South Wales, Australia, 2 February 1893 |
| Home Town: | Mayfield, Waratah, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 31), Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Waratah Memorial Gates, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 565, 3rd Machine Gun Company | |
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| 6 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 565, 3rd Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 6 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 565, 3rd Machine Gun Company, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 20th September 1917, Private James David Simpson, 3rd Australian Machine Gun Company (Reg No-565), labourer from 19 Hanbury Street, Mayfield (Waratah), New South Wales and Railway Hotel, Longreach, Queensland, Died of Wounds at the 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, Remy Siding (Flanders), Battle of the Menin Road, Passchendaele Campaign, age 24.
No Roll of Honour circular summited.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Waratah, New South Wales on the 2nd February 1893 as David James to James (died 24.9.1908, Waratah, N.S.W., age 54, buried at METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) I SE. 49), and Isabella (Isabelle, Edith?, Edie?) Smith Simpson nee Arnott (died 10.7.1929, Wickham, N.S.W., age 74, sleeping at METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) I SE. 51), James enlisted on the 28th February 1916 at Townsville, Queensland.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A67 Orsova on the 6th December 1916.
Wounded in action - 20.9.1917 (multiple SW to jaw, shoulder, hands, right foot or GSW head).
DIED OF WOUNDS, Private J. D. Simpson (Waratah), 21/9/1917.
Mr. Simpson’s name has been inscribed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 31), Belgium.
Place of Association – Waratah, New South Wales, Australia.
James’s name has also been inscribed on the Waratah Park Memorial Gates.
Unfortunately, there is no memorial inscription at the Simpson gravesite to tell us of the loss of their son during The Great War, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of James’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) I SE. 49.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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