Name
David Horace Simons
1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/03/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
235273
Lincolnshire Regiment
4th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
III. G. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
David Horace Simons was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in late 1882, son of Alfred John Simons a Garden Nurseryman and Fanny Simons (nee Prosser). One of eight children, although one died in infancy.
1891 Census records David aged 8, living with his parents, brother Edward (10) and four sisters in, High Street, Cheshunt, Herts.
1901 Census the family have moved to Hoddesdon, Herts, David (18), is employed as a Gardener (not Domestic) living with his parents, brother Edward (20) and five sisters at, 1 Nursery Villa, Ware Road, Hoddesdon, Herts.
1911 Census, David is working as a Nurseryman, still living at home with his parent, and five sisters at, 26 Briscoe Road, Hoddesdon, Herts.
Wartime Service
David travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlist, posted to the Hertfordshire Regiment with the service number 9110. Later transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment with the service number 235273.
Seeing action on the Western Front. He was Killed in Action on 25th March 1918, at the Battle of Bapaume (24th – 25th March 1918). He is buried in the Douchy-les-Ayette British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Ref; III. G. 1.
Additional Information
His effects of £8-8s-00d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £7, went to his father Alfred John Simons.
David is also commemorated on the family headstone in Hoddesdon Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO DAVID HORACE
SON OF THE ABOVE (Alfred John Simons)
DIED IN FRANCE MARCH 25TH 1918
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
