Service Details
Name:
 SIMKINS
Given Name:
 WALTER FRANCIS
Initials:
 W F
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
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Unit:
 3rd Bn.
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Unit 2:
 attd. 2nd Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1916-10-10
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action
Additional
Information:
Son of Edward Walter and Jessie Thompson Simkins, of 358, Longmarket St., Maritzburg, Natal, South Africa. Also served in German South West Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Pier and Face 6 A and 6 B.

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