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Sergeant JAMES SIMPSON

Service Number: 526079
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

44 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 12 June 1940

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LE PARADIS WAR CEMETERY, LESTREM

2. A. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Simpson; husband of Eva May Simpson, of Newark, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription "BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD" WE WILL REMEMBER YOU
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Buried or commemorated at

LE PARADIS WAR CEMETERY, LESTREM
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 166
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