SIMPSON, John Denys Stenhouse
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Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
'Commando Mountain Warfare Training Centre' (CMWTC)
46RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Engineers
Service:
Army
Number:
153779
Died :
Monday, January 29, 1945
Died on war service
Died in the UK
Age:
32
Cemetery/Memorial:
Captain John Simpson from Stockport died in a road traffic accident whilst driving a tracked vehicle on Devonshire Road, Weston-super-Mare [1][2][3]. Captain Simpson was an Instructor at the Commando Mountain Warfare Training Centre (C.M.W.T.C) [4] who had been attached to 46RM Commando on 5 April 1944 at Folkestone [5].
Sources
[1] CWGC.
[2] Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/8.
[3] Report in the Western Daily Press 16 February 1945.
[4] CMWTC History doc (see linked content below).
[5] 46RM Commando War Diary April 1944.
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