Second Lieutenant HERBERT SIMPSON

liverpool annie · Nov 13, 2009

In Memory of
Second Lieutenant HERBERT SIMPSON

6th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
who died age 30
on 07 July 1916
Only son of John William Bramhall Simpson and Julia Simpson, of "South Dene," Ashgate Rd., Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

Remembered with honour
ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN

A BATTLEFIELD HERO

SEC.-LIEUT SIMPSON SPURS ON HIS MEN WHEN MORTALLY WOUNDED

Amid their personnel grief, Mr and Mrs J. W. B. Simpson of Smithdene, Ashgate Road, Chesterfield, have every reason to be proud of their gallant son, second Lieutenant Herbert Simpson, for, as he lay on the battlefield mortally wounded, he spurned his men on to victory. "Don't worry," he remarked, "I am only slightly hit." Thus he veiled the terrible news that his left arm was completely shattered, that he was mauled all down the left side from shoulder to his foot, and that his right hand was smashed. Under the withering cross fire of the opposing forces he lay in the open from early morn till dawn, shells burst round about him, and when he could stand the pain no longer he propelled his maimed body, bit by bit, until he reached the British lines. His wounds were dressed, and in the course of time he was admitted to No. 2 Red Cross Hospital, Rouen. Here he made a gallant fight for life, but an imperative operation, delayed until the last moment, brought the end near, and he died in the presence of his mother, his father, whom the War Office would not permit to make the journey till Thursday afternoon, arriving just too late to see his only son alive.
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The Derbyshire Times July 15 1916

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