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4th June 1940On this day:
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Remembering those who died this day.
- Ashton Stanley William. P/O (d.4th June 1940)
- Campbell Alexander. Pte. (d.4th Jun 1940)
- Edwards Lewis. Pte. (d.4th June 1940)
- Hamilton Andrew Millar. Pte. (d.4th Jun 1940)
- Morrison James Mathew. Pte. (d.4th June 1940)
- Riddle Leonard William George. Sgt. (d.25th May-4th June 1940)
- Simpson James Alexander. Pte. (d.4th Jun 1940)
- Watson Alexander. Pte. (d.4th June 1940)
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Stories from 4th June 1940
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P/O Stanley William Ashton. Royal Air Force, 59 Squadron. (d.4th June 1940) Stanley Ashton is buried in our Swindon cemetery in the same plot as 11201 Frederick Loveday who died 6th November 1918 serving also with the RAF No. 1 transport depot. I'm looking for any more information on both men and the connection between them.Mark Sutton
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Pte. Alexander Watson. British Army, 4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders. (d.4th June 1940) Pte. Watson is buried in Mareuil-Caubert Communal Cemetery, Plot 1 Row D Grave 3.Sheena Maynard
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Sgt. Leonard William George Riddle. British Army , 2nd Btn Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. (d.25th May-4th June 1940) Leonard Riddle was killed in action during the retreat to Dunkirk and was fighting along side a man called Arthur Bowers who survived and witnessed Leonard getting killed by a German sniper, shot in the head.
Leonard's brother, Howard George Aubrey Riddle, was a blacksmith 3rd class on HMS Repulse and was killed when the ship was torpedoed on 10th Dec 1941. Their father, George Aubrey Riddle, survived the First and Second World Wars with just the end of his pipe being shot off whilst laying telephone lines in the trenches at Ypres during WW1. Robert Eddy
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Pte. James Mathew Morrison. British Army, 4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders. (d.4th June 1940) James Morrison served with he 4th Seaforth Highlanders. He is remembered on the Dunkirk Memorial. James Sykes
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Pte. James Alexander "Tufty" Simpson. British Army, 2nd Btn. Seaforth Highlanders. (d.4th Jun 1940) James Simpson was born in 1914 in Elgin, Morayshire. He was the eldest of three boys to Alexander and Elsie Simpson.
James enlisted into the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders aged 14yrs at Fort George and was a drummer boy. James re-enlisted in 1938 for a further 12 years and returned home immediately before the outbreak of war. James was still serving in the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders at that time.
On 18th of January 1940 the Battalion was at Aldershot and was inspected by King George V1.
On the 26th of January the 4th Battalion sailed for France and was moved into position in the Maginot Line in the Saar Valley, France. The German advance in May 1940 bypassed the Maginot Line and the 51st Highland Division fell back to a new position on the Somme at Abbeville.
It was stationed in front of the Ouvrage Hackenberg fortress of the Maginot Line and had thus escaped being encircled with the rest of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. It was then pulled back to a new line roughly along the River Somme, where it was attached to the French Tenth Army.
For some time, it was forced to hold a line four times longer than that which would normally be expected of a division. The Division was attacked very heavily over 4th to 6thof June and it was on 4th June that James was reported missing in action believed killed during the attack on bridgeheads opposite Abbeville on the Somme.
James is remembered on the Elgin War Memorial Eric Simpson
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