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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 18, 2017 13:16:32 GMT
Closed; the plaques are now in Trinity United Reformed Church, Lancaster.    
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Post by BereniceUK on Apr 18, 2017 13:17:04 GMT
1515 Private James Simpson, 1st/5th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Killed in action on 23rd April 1915, aged 20.
2037 Private Douglas C. Wright, 1st/5th King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Killed in action on 23rd April 1915.
The Late Pte. James Simpson
On Sunday morning, the Rev. J. A. Tait, pastor of Centenary Church, spoke of the death of Pte. James Simpson, of Davidson-street, Lancaster. He stated he had been brought up in the Sunday School, and three years ago became a member of the Church. He was only 20 years of age and was killed in the same charge as Pte. Douglas Wright. Their sympathy went out to his mother, who two months ago lost her husband, and at present had a boy of 14 dangerously ill. Another son was at the front. Appropriate reference was also made to Pte. Simpson's death at the meeting of the Centenary Brotherhood, by the President (Mr. Tait), and his favourite hymns were sung, the Secretary also reading his last letter from the front.
(Lancaster Guardian, 15 May 1915)
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