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The route followed being via Portreath in Cornwall, Gibralta and Malta arriving at Sharia in Egypt on the 20th August. On the 28th August Flying Officer Simpson proceeded to No. 5 Middle East Training School, Shallufa, where he continued training on Beaufort aircraft and on the 20th September proceeded to No. 47 Squadron, Shandur, in Egypt with this Squadron as the Navigator of Beaufort bomber aircraft he participated in two operational flights to enemy targets.

Flying Officer was the navigator of a Beaufort aircraft which took off on 26th October to attack an enemy convoy and was involved in a collision with a machine from a South African, Squadron on the return journey and crashed into the sea. All the members of the crew including Flying Officer Simpson were classified as missing believed killed. Nothing further was heard of Flying Officer Simpson and in due course his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 26th October 1942.

5/15/1460 AS2.
309 hours as Navigator.

Mrs. G.S. Simpson (M) (right aligned)
5 Owen Street, (right aligned)
FEILDING. (right aligned & underlined)