Cockburn James Simpson Sergeant 4444437
Personnel Entry
Name Cockburn James Simpson
Army number 4444437
Rank Sergeant
Decorations
Date of birth Birth registered, Sunderland, Q2 1907.
Age
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry in Sunderland on 28/4/1925, TA, for 4 years, aged 18 and two months - posted to 7th Battalion. Discharged 27/4/1929 on Termination of Engagement. Re-enlisted 1/5/1939 in the Royal Artillery - TA - Field. Posted to 125th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. To Command Course, YORK, 15/1/1940. To 23rd Division Course for Pioneers 3/3/1940. Posted away from Regiment before Far East service?
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action Death registered March 1968, aged 60, Liverpool.
Home address Driller, born Sunderland. Next of kin - Aunt - Susanna Boyle, 32, Cuthbert Terrace, Deptford, Sunderland. Married Jane Dawson, Sunderland 20/12/1930.
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