
The grave of Walter Simpson at Berks Cemetery. Photographed for ‘Marching in Memory’ for Combat Stress, July 2015
1st December 1915. Walter Simpson, D Social 1900. Trooper, 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force. Killed in action in an unknown engagement in Flanders.
He was a good oarsman who rowed for Cambridge University Trial VIII in 1906, and won the Ladies Plate at Henley in 1907.
Aged 29
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