Oldham Historical Research Group

'THE GREAT WAR',     'THE WAR TO END WAR',     'WORLD WAR 1'
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
- Only the monstrous anger of the guns.'
                                                                                                  from 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen

1914 - 1918

St. Paul's Methodist Church, Shaw
Memorial Autograph Book

St Paul's Methodist church WW1 Memorial Autograph Book - Private Richard Clifford Simpson, 242252

Private Richard Clifford Simpson, 242252
2/4th Seaforth Highlanders ('D' Coy. 1/5th Battalion when killed)
Enlisted 13th January 1915
Wounded 9th April 1918
P.O.W.; died of wounds in Saltau, Germany
Age 23

Son of Thomas Gilbert Simpson and Betsy Simpson, of 7, Fenton St., Shaw, Lancashire.

On the 1911 census he was a 'warehouse clerk' and living with his widowed mother (a 'boot dealer'), 2 brothers and 2 cousins at 38 Market Street in Shaw.

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