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Private Francis James Simpson

 

Number: 33583

Company: 61st (Dublin) Company (New), 17th Battalion, Second Contingent

ENLISTMENT

Date: February-March 1901

Place: Belfast

Age: 20 years. (Born 1881, Saint John, Kempston, Bedford.)

Trade or calling: Clerk (?)

Family: Father Frederick George Simpson, mother Harriett Simpson.

Previous military service: No

Religion: Recorded as Methodist in the 1911 Census.

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 26 March 1901 (?)

Date home: 1902 (?)

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 1901, 1902 clasps.

DISCHARGE

Date: 1902

Place: United Kingdom

Reason for discharge: The termination of his engagement (?)

 

Simpson's Imperial Yeomanry service file cannot be located, and hence the information above is sketchy.

At the time of the 1911 Census Simpson was living at 10 Jameson Street, Belfast, with his aunt and uncle Barbara and Samuel Gregg, and working as a clerk. On 30 July 1913 he married Margaret Smyth in the Agnes Street Presbyterian Church, Belfast. The couple lived at 75 Cavehill Road, having two children over the next six years.

In World War 1 he served in the North Irish Horse. Further details can be seen here.

This page last updated 30 April 2026.