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Donald Simpson

Rank Gunner
Service Number 192810 (as a rating)
Born 18/06/1881 Edinburgh

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Portsmouth
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HMS Black Prince

Class Duke of Edinburgh-class armoured cruiser

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Portsmouth Naval Memorial

The memorial was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and is located on Southsea Common. There are 24,593 identified casualties listed of which 10,000 were sailors in World War One. The memorial was unveiled by the Duke of York (future King George VI) on 15th October 1924

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Decorations 1914-15 Star; Victory & british War Medals Wounded Died 31 May 1916 Next of kin address Rosalie (nee Flynn) Portsmouth Scotland More info National Archives - ADM188/331/192810. Image of his Service Certificate as a rating on Lives of the first world war