Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website



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Pte. James Duncan Gowans Simpson

British Army 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders

from:Aberdeen

I received a full uniform set (tunic, kilt and accoutrements) belonging to James Simpson along with a series of documents. These included two paybooks and two certificates of service detailing his interwar, wartime, and postwar regular and reserve service. Simpson was born in 1906, and initially joined the Gordons on 11th of January 1925.

Being recalled in 1937, he went to France with the BEF and was at some point captured by the German Forces. He spent the majority of the war confined to Stalag XXB as PoW 19186 before being released at the end of the war. He received the 1939-45 star, the France-Germany Medal and the War Medal.

He rejoined the Gordons in 1947, transferred to the HLI in 1948, before finally being discharged in 1950.



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