Name
David Horace Simons
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/03/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235273
Lincolnshire Regiment
4th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
III. G. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Born in 1883 in Cheshunt, son of Alfred J and Fanny Simons and was living in High Street, Cheshunt in 1891.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford formerly 9110 Hertfordshire Regiment and was killed in action.
Additional Information
David is
also commemorated on the family headstone in Hoddesdon Cemetery. His part of
the inscription reads:
ALSO DAVID HORACE
SON OF THE ABOVE (Alfred John Simons)
SON OF THE ABOVE (Alfred John Simons)
DIED IN FRANCE MARCH 25TH 1918
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
