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03/12/2021 Lance Sergeant Simpson is listed on page 470 of the Fermanagh War Dead book.
03/12/2021 Lance Sergeant Simpson is listed on page 60 of the Fivemiletown book, from which most of these details come from. Many thanks to Mark Byers for the information and photo.
03/12/2021 Lance Sergeant Percy Simpson is commemorated locally on Fivemiletown War Memorial.
03/12/2021 Private Percy Simpson landed in France with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 5th October 1915.
03/12/2021 After leaving school, he worked his grandmother’s farm.
03/12/2021 Percy attended Clabby National School.
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03/12/2021 Percy Simpson was the son of Robert and Rachel Simpson.
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28/03/2017 Cambria Memorial photo kindly donated by Bob Pike, courtesy of Carrie Pike, via the Great War Forum.
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25/03/2017 From the Impartial Reporter dated 17th January 1918: War News
25/03/2017 Mrs David Credden, Gortmore, Fivemiletown, has received intimation from the War Office that 14120 Lance Sergeant Percy Simpson, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Donegal and Fermanagh Volunteers), was killed in action on 7th December 1917. He was previously wounded by shrapnel in the great advance on 1st July 1916 at the Battle odf the Somme. Previous to the war he was a member of the UVF and Cavanaleck LOL.
25/03/2017 Lance Sergeant Percy Simpson, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Donegal and Fermanagh), was killed in action on 7th December. He was wounded at the Somme on 1st July 1916, and previous to the war was a member of the U.V.F. and Cavanaleck (Fivemiletown) L.O.L.
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25/03/2017 From the Belfast Newsletter dated 18th January 1918:
25/03/2017 In 1915, Percy enlisted in Enniskillen.
25/03/2017 Percy Simpson was a member of the U.V.F. and Cavanaleck (Fivemiletown) L.O.L. No. 623.
30/12/2015 Percy was born about 1895 in Philadelphia, U.S.A.
30/12/2015 The CWGC record Lance Sergeant Simpson as the son of Robert and Rachel Simpson, of Philadelphia, U.S.A. He was previously wounded at Thiepval and Messines Ridge.
30/12/2015 Lance Sergeant Simpson has no known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial in Louverval.
30/12/2015 Lance Sergeant Percy Simpson was serving with the 11th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers when he was killed in action in France and Flanders on Friday 7th December 1917. He was 22 years old.
30/12/2015 Percy was wounded at the Somme on 1st July 1916 and again at Messines Ridge in 1917.
30/12/2015 The 1911 census shows Percy Simpson living with his grandmother, Anna Maria Credden, in Camgort, Clabby, County Fermanagh. Percy was 15 years old and working as a farm assistant.
30/12/2015 The 1901 census shows Percy Simpson living with his grandparents, Robert and Anna Maria Credden, in Camgart, Clabby, County Fermanagh. Percy was 5 years old.
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