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  • SIMEONS
  • EE
  • EDWARD EMIL
  • Bromley
  • Kent, England
  • Luton
  • Son of Mr. Carl Maria Simeons and Edith Susanah, of "Dudley," Blyth Rd., Bromley, Kent.
  • nautical training College, HMS Worcester
  • Apprentice to the British Gelatine Works
  • Signed the Visitors' Book of Talbot House on 11 February 1916, on his way back to his battalion

Military service

  • August 1914
  • Captain
  • 8th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment
  • 16th Brigade
  • 6th Division
  • B.E.F.
  • To France on 30 August 1915;
    Arrived in France as a Lieutenant with the battalion in August 1915 and on 24th September was promoted to Temporary Captain; Battle of Loos; acute tonsillitis while on leave; returned 10 February 1916

Death

  • 15 February, on patrol; Canal Bank
  • Wounded in the head and left thigh by machine gun fire, fractured right arm; died in n°10 CCS
  • 17 February 1916
  • 22
  • II - A - 35
  • LA BRIQUE MILITARY CEMETERY No.2 ; MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY ; ESSEX FARM CEMETERY

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