Private James Simpson
240525 126th Machine Gun Corps
Lived at 2 Keppell Street


With his daughter Kathleen Violet Simpson


James & Alice Simpson & family c 1932

 





Have also attached some photo's of James Edward Simpson my Great Grandfather. James was born 4th April 1886 at Kirkby Stephen in Westmorland. He appears on your site of men who fought and survived. Private 240525 James Simpson was in the Machine Gun Corp & lived at 2, Keppell Street, Burnley. He married Alice Sweeney, sister to both Myles & James Sweeney above. James Simpson died on 9th October 1961 at 42, Derby Street, Burnley.

(Courtesy of Craig Simpson)

 

 

 

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