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Signalman ALFRED HERBERT SIMPKIN

Service Number: 14251457
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 23 September 1945

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MADRAS WAR CEMETERY, CHENNAI

1. L. 11.

India

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 4 Indian Air Form. Sigs. Indian Signal Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harold and Catherine Simpkin, of Meir. Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription TO A BEAUTIFUL LIFE CAME A SUDDEN END. A CLUSTER OF LOVELY MEMORIES. MUM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

MADRAS WAR CEMETERY, CHENNAI
India
Number of casualties: 860
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