Full name Vivian Sumner Simpson Place of birth Sheffield, England Playing position Position Forward | Date of birth 1883 Place of death Outtersteene, France Died 1918 | |
Date of death 13 April 1918 (aged 34–35) | ||
Vivian Sumner Simpson MC (1883 – 13 April 1918) was an English amateur football forward who played in the Football League for The Wednesday.
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Personal life
Simpson attended Wesley College, Sheffield and later worked for his father. He served in the York and Lancaster Regiment during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross and mentioned in dispatches in September 1917 for leading part of an attack on a German trench and organising the consolidation of the position. Between November 1916 and February 1917, Simpson was promoted from a temporary second lieutenant to acting captain while commanding his company. He was promoted to acting captain and to command his company again in April 1917. In September 1917, Simpson was invalided back to Britain after suffering wounds and was posted to a role training junior officers in Sunderland. He later returned to the front and was killed by a sniper on 13 April 1918 in Outtersteene, France. He was buried in Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension.
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Sheffield