Every Name a Story

S. Waters 1915
Rank : Lance Corporal

Blyth

Simon  Waters

Every Name a Story

On the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, is the name of 23459 Lance Corporal Simon Waters, serving with the 7th Battalion Canadian Infantry, who died 24/04/1915.

Morpeth Herald 14/05/1915 carries a brief obituary:
News has reached Blyth that Private [sic] S. Waters has been killed in action during the fighting in Flanders. Private Waters emigrated from Blyth to Canada, and was in the first British Columbia Regiment. He also went through the Boer War.

Simon Waters is remembered at Blyth on B42.24

First Name: Simon

Last Name: Waters

Canadian

Service Number: 23459

Which War: First World War 1914-18

Died: 24/04/1915

Rank: Lance Corporal

Regiment: Canadian Infantry

Served in: Army

Unit/Ship: 7th Battalion

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Blyth
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