{"id":1190,"date":"2013-02-09T13:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/?page_id=1190"},"modified":"2025-01-23T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:34:13","slug":"henry-lamont-simpson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/henry-lamont-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Lamont Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1190\" data-postid=\"1190\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1190 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_b17d00a tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_df6f48e first\">\n                    <!-- module box -->\n<div  class=\"module module-box tb_gx91379 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n    <div class=\"module-box-content ui  tb_default_color\">\n                <div class=\"tb_text_wrap\"><h2><strong>Key Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Name:\u00a0<\/strong>Henry Lamont Simpson<\/p>\n<p><strong>DoB:<\/strong>\u00a0June 5 1897,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Regt:\u00a0<\/strong>Lancashire Fusiliers\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DoD:\u00a0<\/strong>August 29 1918<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong>: CGS\u00a01908-1916<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biographical Information:<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module box -->\n        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_gdx9133 last\">\n                    <!-- module gallery -->\n<div  class=\"module gallery module-gallery tb_39wm763 layout-slider  \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n                <div class=\"themify_builder_slider_vertical tf_rel\">\n                <div 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class=\"builder-accordion-active\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-c6bc302-0\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-c6bc302-0-content\" aria-expanded=\"true\">\n                                                            Family Background:                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-c6bc302-0-content\" data-id=\"acc-c6bc302-0\" aria-hidden=\"false\" class=\"accordion-content tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_9287993\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_4738993 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_850j993   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>Henry was the eldest of four children born to Henry Colbeck Simpson and Margaret Jane (n\u00e9e Quirk), and they resided at The Old Grove, Carlisle. Henry Senior was a tailor and hosier (employer) from Newcastle, according to the 1901 Census, when he was a visitor to Woodhorn Manor in Morpeth. He is also not listed on the 1911 Census as being with the family. Mother Margaret was born in India but her mother Matilda was from the Isle of Man. The 1891 Census show her living in Warwick Square Carlisle, a school mistress. Interestingly in 1881, when a pupil teacher, she was living with her mother and uncle Richard Carson, a Chelsea pensioner, who had served in the British Army between 1860 and 1878, so there was clearly a family history of military service.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-c6bc302-1\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-c6bc302-1-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Academic Record:                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-c6bc302-1-content\" data-id=\"acc-c6bc302-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_p2tm993\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_j96q993 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_6mel993   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>Carlisle Grammar School 1908-1916.<br \/>Henry appears to have been academic. He was a county council minor scholar, 1908; Charles Howard scholar, 1909; and a foundation scholar, 1912. He was awarded a maths prize in 1909 and junior classics prize in 1911. He was awarded the 1914 school medal for sports. He played Smike in \u201c<em>Nicholas Nickleby<\/em>\u201c. By 1913 he was a prefect and librarian and took prizes in reading, French and maths. In 1914 he was house captain and was very active in the dramatic productions; playing the lead in \u201c<em>Ivanhoe<\/em>\u201d and appearing with Hannay in a comedy \u201c<em>French as he is spoke<\/em>\u201d. He won the chancellor\u2019s medal, the literature prize and maths prize (again!). Henry was active also in the debating society. \u201c<em>HL Simpson is one of the best speakers we have this term, his speeches are generally a pleasure to listen to, both on account of his original ideas, the excellent way he delivers them and a delightful vein of humour never lacking<\/em>\u201d. He opposed the motion that \u201c<em>the construction of a Channel Tunnel is unadvisable<\/em>\u201d and recommended having theatres and hotels at the bottom of the sea \u201c<em>where the fishes might see our beauty<\/em>\u201d. In 1915 Henry was the editor of the Carliol and school captain.<br \/>Henry was good at sport too: we have a photo of him on the school cricket team from 1913 and he played on the Rugby XV 1915 (\u201c<em>useful in the scrum<\/em>\u201d). He was also tennis captain.<br \/>Henry won a scholarship to Cambridge (History Exh. of \u00a330 at Pembroke Coll., Cambridge, 1915). Henry deferred going to university in favour of joining up. There is a short letter from his father to the Master of Pembroke from 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0September which reads: \u201c\u00a0<em>It is my painful duty to notify you that my son 2<sup>nd<\/sup>Lieut, HL Simpson, for whom you were holding a scholarship, was killed in action \u00a0in France on August 28<sup>th<\/sup><\/em>\u201d. The College does record him on their War Memorial however.\u00a0<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-c6bc302-2\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-c6bc302-2-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            War Service:                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-c6bc302-2-content\" data-id=\"acc-c6bc302-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_lc7h993\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_kpoh993 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_6v88993   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>Henry won a scholarship to Cambridge, but deferred going up to university in favour of joining up. Henry received his commission to the Lancashire Fusiliers on June 26 1917. On September 6, the War Diary records that HL Simpson had been wounded, and while he had joined the 1\/8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in France, he was actually in Belgium when he was injured. It was bad timing as the Battalion was relieved the next day and retired to camp at Brandhoek. At some point Henry returned to the front, this time in the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. The 1918 Annual reported that: \u201c<em>On the 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0the Intelligence Officer, 2\/Lieut. H.L. Simpson was killed while reconnoitering \u201cNo Man\u2019s Land.<\/em>\u201d According to the preface of his book of poetry, he was killed by a sniper\u2019s bullet.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-c6bc302-3\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-c6bc302-3-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Battalion:                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-c6bc302-3-content\" data-id=\"acc-c6bc302-3\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_pg4k993\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_ysfd993 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_wb8r993   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>The 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers had been at Gallipoli and Egypt, but from February 1917 had transferred to the Western Front.<\/p>\n<p>During July 1918 the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion was resting at Coubronne and Waemers Cappel. Battalion sports were held on 7 July and the officers wrestling on horseback afforded much amusement. Was Henry a part of this? On 1 August the Battalion marched to Hazebrouck whereupon it was attached to the 88<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Brigade in order to relieve the 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Australians.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-c6bc302-4\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-c6bc302-4-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Other:                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-c6bc302-4-content\" data-id=\"acc-c6bc302-4\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_zp79993\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_kx2i993 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_zmtx993   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>Henry is a published poet. A\u00a0compilation book \u2018In Flanders Fields\u2019 published in 2005 comprises works from 30 poets killed in action, including Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen, and our own\u00a0Henry Lamont Simpson. The volume includes two of Henry\u2019s poems \u2013 Casualty List and Last Song.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In 1919, Henry\u2019s former English Teacher H. C. Duffin, who taught at the school from 1912 to 1916 published Henry\u2019s poems in a book \u201cMood and Tenses\u201d, which is no longer in print. \u00a0In the Introductory Remarks, Duffin says of his pupil: \u201c<em>His spirit was fine, swift, vivacious and at the same time firm-set in sanity and strength<\/em>\u201d. There are 40 items in the book, mainly poems with a couple of prose sections. The dates of the\u00a0poems range from 1914 to 1918, which suggests that some were written whilst he was still at school. Some poems were written in Cambridge suggesting he spent time at the university.\u00a0Roughly three-quarters appear to have\u00a0been written before he\u00a0joined up or during training, and the remainder from the front, or at least having experienced it.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Last Song\u00a0<\/b>written on June 13 1918<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Henry Lamont Simpson<\/p>\n<p><b>All my songs are risen and fled away;<\/b><b><br \/>(Only the brave birds stay);<br \/>All my beautiful songs are broken or fled.<br \/>My poor songs could not stay<br \/>Among the filth and the weariness and the dead.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There was bloody grime on their light, white feathery wings,<br \/>(Hear how the lark still sings),<br \/>And their eyes were the eyes of dead men that I knew.<br \/>Only a madman sings<br \/>When half of his friends lie asleep for the rain and the dew.<\/p>\n<p>The flowers will grow over the bones of my friends;<br \/>(The birds\u2019 song never ends);<br \/>Winter and summer, their fair flesh turns to clay.<br \/>Perhaps before all ends<br \/>My songs will come again that have fled away.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere could not easily be a more fitting memorial of his life than a book of his poems.\u201d H. C. \u00a0Duffin<\/p>\n<p>In the Nicoll family archive \u00a0there are a few letters from Theodore Walrond (the music master from 1906-11) to the brothers in which various \u2018OC\u2019s\u2019 are mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u201d And clearly all the family knew HL Simpson as there are passing references to his death and then a rather gracious (printed) note from his parents expressing gratitude for \u2018all the sympathy and kindness shown to them in their great sorrow\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-c6bc302-5\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-c6bc302-5-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Sources:                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-c6bc302-5-content\" data-id=\"acc-c6bc302-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_ch6a993\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_mx3u993 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_tvha994   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carlisle School Memorial Register 1264-1924<\/p>\n<p>b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Census: 1911 RG14\/31343; 1901 RG13\/4837; 1881 RG11\/5157<\/p>\n<p>c) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Carliol<\/p>\n<p>d) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Archivist Pembroke College Cambridge<\/p>\n<p>e)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 War Diary of 8<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers<\/p>\n<p>f)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Lancashire Fusiliers Annual 1918 Vol XXVIII<\/p>\n<p>g) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Nicoll family archive<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n\n<\/div><!-- \/module accordion -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Key Information Name:\u00a0Henry Lamont Simpson DoB:\u00a0June 5 1897, Regt:\u00a0Lancashire Fusiliers\u00a0\u00a0 DoD:\u00a0August 29 1918 Academic Career: CGS\u00a01908-1916 Biographical Information: Family Background: Henry was the eldest of four children born to Henry Colbeck Simpson and Margaret Jane (n\u00e9e Quirk), and they resided at The Old Grove, Carlisle. 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