Samuel George Simpson Bill's Belgian medals

Bill's Belgian Medals
George Simpson

My father, Samuel George Simpson, passed away on 31st January 2003 at the age of

80.

He was a devoted family man and had fond memories of his service in the Army,

mainly as a motor

cyclist dispatch

rider, serving in North Africa with the First Army.

He then joined the Allied invasion of Italy and ended up in Austria at the close of the

war.

However, he was seriously injured in Padua some months after the war ended and

spent a year in

hospital recovering

from severe injuries to his leg.

The illness and death of my father was a difficult time for all

the

family, myself included.

While designing this site about medals, I thought it

appropriate to

display my father's medals,

now passed on

to me for safe-keeping

as his eldest son.

Those medals are shown

a

bove as I received them

b

ut I have since

had them remounted

to show

them at their best. The medals are

the

1939-45

Star, the Africa Star with First Army Bar, the

Italy

Star, the

Defence

Medal and finally the War Medal.

Last Updated 25 July 2008