Lieutenant George Ricardo SIMPSON (Did not matriculate)

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Born October 1895 in Chester
Died of wounds 30 August 1918, aged 22
Buried at Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas-de-Calais, France. Also commemorated on the war memorial at Upton, Cheshire.

George Simpson was the son and only child of Ricardo Simpson and Florence, née Mayall, of Newton Bank, Chester.

He was educated at the Leas School, Hoylake, Wirral, and at Radley College, Abingdon.

He enlisted on 15 August 1914, and was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant on 22 September. He went to France in March 1915, his rank being made permanent on 7 April.

He died of wounds received in action, on 30 August 1918.