Commemorating the Fallen of WW1

The grave of Walter Simpson at Berks Cemetery.  Photographed for 'Marching in Memory' for Combat Stress, July 2015

The grave of Walter Simpson at Berks Cemetery. Photographed for ‘Marching in Memory’ for Combat Stress, July 2015

Today we remember …

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

 

Walter Simpson, Trooper, 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force.  kia 1 December 1915

Walter Simpson, Trooper, 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force. kia 1 December 1915