SIMPSON John -1900 :: SIMPSON Reginald Dundas 1908-1943
John SIMPSON was killed in action at Nooitgedact on 13 Dec 1900, aged 32, member of Kitcherner's Fighting Scouts. Lieut Reginald Dundas SIMPSON, son of Dundas & Ethel SIMPSON, born 1908 was reported missing on 26 Dec 1943 and believed killed 25 July at Tirana, Albania. Background provided by Friends of Jhb Cemeteries: Dundas sr was a Rand Pioneer, which means he arrived and lived in Johannesburg before 1900. Dundas was born in 1862 in the colliery town of Airdrie, Scotland where his father owned a colliery. He took an active part in the Anglo Boer War, where he served under General Penn-Symons and in 1903, he married Ethel Fannie Boucher Simpson whose father, James, had been the manager of the Bank of Africa. The first 2 children recorded on the family headstone were twin boys born in April 1905, just 2 years after Dundas and Ethel married. One died on the day he was born and the other 5 days later. The third son recorded on this headstone was Lieut. Reginald Dundas Simpson. He studied at Cambridge and then came to South Africa to join his father on the Stock Exchange. While here, he served with the Transvaal Scottish. When WW2 broke out, he joined up as a pilot with the SAAF. He was reported missing just after Christmas in 1943 and is believed to have died on June 25, 1944, at Tirana, Albania . It would appear that this family plot is not only for Dundas Simpson’s offspring but for a wider family. Agnes Brown Simpson was his mother, who lived in Saratoga Avenue and who had 12 children. I think John Simpson who was killed at Nooitgedacht, Tvl during the ABW fighting with Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, must have been one of Dundas’ brothers. The same must apply to Robert Gray Simpson who died in 1895 aged 23 years.
contributed by: Derek Walker
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