PRIVATE HORACE HOBAN SIMPSON
AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY
9TH AUGUST 1918 AGE 21
BURIED: ROSIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE
Horace Simpson was a 21-year-old Labourer from Prahran, Victoria who enlisted on 10 August 1915. He embarked from Australia on 15 September 1915 and served with the 5th Battalion Australian Infantry who were at that time on Gallipoli. Withdrawn from Gallipoli in December 1915 the battalion was sent to Egypt to defend the Suez Canal. In March 1916 it was transferred to the Western Front. Over the next two years the battalion saw action at Pozieres on the Somme, at Ypres both in the winter of 1916-17 and then later that spring and was involved in the German Spring Offensive of 1918. After three years of action Simpson was killed on the second day of the great Allied offensive launched near Amiens on 8 August 1918 that eventually brought the war to an end.