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Corporal GEORGE SIMMS

Service Number: 200911
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

2nd/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 May 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

XII. B. 9.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Enoch and Sarah Emma Simms, of Butt Lane, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Annice Simms, of 94, Ringley Rd., Outwood, Stoneclough, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVE AND MEMORY WITH US STILL R.I.P. FROM WIFE, CHILD & MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 10786
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