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Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Field Artillery
Division:
A Bty. 79th Bde.
Enlistment:
Kingston, Ontario
Death:
August 7, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. B. 17.
Additional information
Son of Douglas and Clara Simpson, of 31, Kendal Avenue, Toronto.
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Honour Roll
"University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", 1921. -
Photo of Colin Simpson
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1916. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Photo of Colin Simpson
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of Colin Simpson
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
Digital gallery of
Second Lieutenant Colin Simpson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 573 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Gorre is a hamlet 2.5 kilometres east of Beuvry. Leave Beuvry on the D72, crossing the railway and then the Canal d'Aire on the way. The Cemetery is 150 metres from the church in Gorre, to the left of the D72.
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