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Gloucester Journal – Saturday 22 September 1917

The British Casualties
Wounded
Gloucester Regiment
285065, D. Holmes – Redditch.

Wounded
Gloucester Regiment
30176, H. Hartles – Redditch.

UK Royal Navy and Royal Marine War Graves Roll

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Private John Thomas Simon, Service No PLY/2028/S, 1 Royal Marine Battalion, Royal
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Marine Light Infantry, died of wounds in 4 Casualty Clearing Station (Bomb wound left hip,
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penetrating abdomen 26 October 1917. He died 27 October 1917.He had enlisted on 10
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April 1917, aged 22. Draft for BEF 10 July 1917 and then joined 1 RM Battalion, 30
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August 1917 – 26 October 1917 wounded. In notes he had been a needle scourer and his
father George lived at 100a Evesham Road, Headless Cross. His wife was Mrs Florrie Simons
of 100a Evesham Road.
(On Ancestry site find a grave Private John Thomas Simon born in 1894, came from Redditch,
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killed in action, 27 October 1917, aged 23, a member of the Royal Marine Light Infantry.
Buried Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross.
(John Thomas Simon was born in 1894 in the Alcester District and he married Florence M. Cale in 1917 in the
Alcester District. On the 1911 census John Thomas Simon aged 16, Assisting in the Business, lived with his
parents, George Nathan, Hardware dealer and Flora Louisa and his siblings at 100a Evesham Road, Headless
Cross.)

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