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Pte. Herbert Henry Simmonite
British Army 1st Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Darnall, Sheffield
Herbert Simmonite enlisted at age 16 in WW1 and served with the 1st and 6th Battalions, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He landed in France on 25th of May 1915, two months short of his 17th birthday, with the 6th (Service) Battalion at Boulogne-Sur-Mer and possibly took part in the Battle of Loos in September 1915, after which they went to Marseilles on 21st of October, where they boarded transport ships on 24th of October and then finally disembarked at Salonika in December 1916. Herbert subsequently returned to the Western Front and was discharged in 1919. He lived a long life and died in 1960.

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