George Cant SIMPSON

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SIMPSON, George Cant

Service Numbers:	157, 1252
Enlisted:	7 October 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Burntisland, Fifeshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Kurri Kurri, Cessnock, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Vanman
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 August 1915, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Gallipoli, Turkey Panel 15. , Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

7 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 157, 1st Field Ambulance
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement 157, 1st Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked 157, 1st Field Ambulance, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
6 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1252, 1st Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Previously served in the Black Watch

Promoted Corporal 7.12.1914

Previously served under Service Number 157 with 1st Field Ambulance.

He left a widow-Helen [re-married Beatty] of Newcastle Street, Kurri Kurri and two children:

Alexander Rolls T. Simpson

Nellie Berry Simpson.

He is honoured on the Burntisland War Memorial in Fife-shire, Scotland and on the family grave in Burntisland Cemetery. Burntisland (/bɜːrntˈaɪlənd/ listen (help·info), Scots: Bruntisland)[ is a royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth

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