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Pilot Officer David Albert Simpson

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Military service

Service number: J/5309
Age: 24
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 51 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Death: November 8, 1941

Burial/memorial information

SAGE WAR CEMETERY
Grave reference: 3. F. 6.
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Son of William Edward and Ethel Lillian (nee Stewart) Simpson, of Edmonton, Alberta. Brother of Lenna Lilley, Norah Kathleen "Kay", William Stewart "Bill" and Jocelyn Ruth. Pilot Officer Simpson is commemorated on the West Vancouver Memorial Arch, East Plinth; he is commemorated in the Second World War Book of Remembrance displayed in the West Vancouver Library; on the West Vancouver United Church World War Two Honour Roll. He is also commemorated on Canada's Bomber Command Memorial at the Bomber Command Museum in Nanton, Alberta. The Government of British Columbia named Simpson Lake in memory of David Albert Simpson.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 44 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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SAGE WAR CEMETERY Germany

Sage is a village 24 km south of Oldenburg, a town 43 km west of Bremen and 28 km north of the main road from Bremen to Holland. The cemetery lies 2 km south of the village on the west side of the road to Osnabruck.

From the A1 Bremen/Munster motorway visitors should leave at the Wildeshousen Nord junction and take 213 following signs for Alhorn and Oldenburg. After 8 km and immediately after the village of Alhorn turn right at the roundabout and follow signs for Oldenburg along the Oldenburgerstrasse. The cemetery lies on the left hand side of the road 4 km from Alhorn.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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