Ralph Osborne Simpson

Forenames

Ralph Osborne AWMM

Surname

Simpson AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/2844 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Te Kopuru, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs E. Simpson (mother), Te Kopuru, Northern Wairoa, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 09 Oct 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

Battle of the Somme AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 12/2844 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 09 Oct 1915-30 Nov 1915 AWMM
HMNZT 32 AWMM Vessel was Aparima AWMM Private AWMM Auckland Infantry Battalion AWMM 7th Reinforcements AWMM

Medical notes

Died of wounds, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion AWMM

Ralph Simpson was the son of Mrs. E. Simpson, of Te Kapuru, Northern Wairoa, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs E. Simpson, Grey Lynn, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

26 Sept 1916 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of wounds AWMM

Cemetery

Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-l'Abbe, Somme, France AWMM IV. H. 51. AWMM

Memorial name

• Roll of Honour, Northern Wairoa RSA, Dargaville AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7817448
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/272514/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/272514
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 664
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• Dry Rations, or, The Aparima Apparition : with which is incorporated the Waikanae wash-out and The Tauherenikau trumpeter : unofficial organ of the 7th Rfts, Transport No. 32
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.