William Robert Simons died of wounds on this day in 1917

William was born at South Wigston, Leicestershire in 1892.

Moving to Sutton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, William was employed as a spinning overlooker and was a keen member of a local brass band. He lived with his father on Wighill Street.

William enlisted in the local territorials (with whom he was a member of the regimental band) and he was sent to France in about March 1917. On 3 May 1917, William was posted as missing but it later transpired that he had been wounded and captured.

Held in a German prisoner of war camp (initially in the camp hospital) at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, William died of his injuries there on 10 December 1917 and was buried on 13 December in a cemetery at Ingolstadt but his grave was later concentrated to Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel.

267904 Pte William Robert Simons, 2nd/6th Bn, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)