Neil Mathies Simpson · In memoriam
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Neil Mathies Simpson
1904 – 1941 · 37 years
WW2 Service Australian Army Rank Private VX26346 Posting on Death: 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion. Vic. Paybook photograph of VX26346 Private Neil Mathies Simpson, 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry. Private Simpson, aged 37, died while defending the island of Crete against the German land and airborne invasion on 24 May 1941. He was the son of Robert and Isabella Simpson, of Gourock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He is commemorated on the Athens Memorial Face 12. (Photograph supplied by the Army's Soldier Career Management Agency. His name is located at panel 74 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial. He was the son of Robert and Isabella Simpson, of Gourock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
