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First Name: James William Last Name: SIMES
Date of Death: 29/01/1917 Lived/Born In: Spitalfields
Rank: Rifleman Unit: London17
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Age-29

Enlisted-Shoreditch

Railway Dugouts Burial Ground, Belgium

 

On 26th January, 1917, 17th London of 141 Brigade, 47th Division, moved into the front line trenches in the Hill 60 sector of the Ypres salient where they remained until relieved on 30th January. On 29th January, James Simes was killed by a sniper when on a working party.

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