Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain F. Simpson, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 2/1st London Field Ambulance, who died of wounds in the U.K. in March 1918 - having suffered severe shrapnel injuries to his spine in France in January 1917

1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), together with related Memorial Plaque in the name of (Frederic Simpson) the whole contained in an old fitted display frame, extremely fine (4) £300-350

Frederic Simpson was severely wounded on 1 January 1917, while serving in the 2/1st London Field Ambulance. Evacuated to the U.K., he lingered on until his death at Templeton House Hospital, Roehampton, Surrey on 31 March 1918, aged 33 years. A local newspaper report stated:

‘The deceased had served in Egypt and on the Western Front. In January 1917, he was wounded whilst employed on the battlefield, a piece of shrapnel injuring his spine. Despite all the efforts that were made by the medical staff attending him, he passed away on Easter Sunday.’

Simpson had attended the Charing Cross Medical School, taking the diploma of L.M.S.S.A. He was buried in Erith (Brook St) Cemetery, Kent, where his parents lived.