 Second Lieutenant Michael John Simpson of 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, died on 23rd October 1974.
Service Number: 497510 He was shot by a sniper three weeks previously at the junction of Racecourse Road and Greenhaw Crescent in Londonderry. He was hit in the stomach and the bullet went through his body and hit another soldier in the arm. As Lt. Simpson was lying fatally injured, he managed to report the incident on his radio. He was from Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. Born on 25 November 1952 he was aged 21.
5 Comments
Steve Porter
10/12/2021 10:52:14 am
Mr Simpson was my platoon commander, he was a decent man and an excellent young officer.
Tim Tayler
11/3/2021 06:57:01 am
I was one of Mike's fellow platoon commanders at the time he was killed. You have summed him up well, Steve. He deserves to be remembered.
ken Barry
10/26/2021 08:33:31 pm
did Second Lieutenant Michael John Simpson of 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, have a military funeral if not did anyone from the regiment go to the funeral and if so where was Michael Buried Michael was in my training troop 1972in Royal Engineers at Cove I met him again in Nienburg Germany before he went to sandhurst to become a officer and later joined the Staffordshire Regiment
Steve Porter
10/26/2021 08:59:17 pm
Hi Ken,
KENNETH BARRY
11/3/2021 10:51:17 am
thanks steve porter Leave a Reply. |
This roll of honour is to remember those Staffords who died on deployment or operations since the end of WW2. All care has been taken to identify those soldiers using all publicly available information.
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