Name: Rank: Service Number: Service: Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Date of Enlistment: Place of Enlistment: Address at Enlistment: Age at Enlistment: Height: Complexion: Eye Colour: Hair Colour: Martial Status: Trade: Religion: Next of Kin: Date of Death: Age at Death: Cemetery:

Aubrey Simmons

Sources Veterans Affairs Canada

Aubrey Simmons Sapper D/16460 Royal Canadian Engineers July 9, 1900 Yarmouth NS June 27, 1940 Montreal, Quebec Montreal, Quebec 39 5 feet, 5½ inches Dark Brown Black Single Ship Fireman Baptist Cecil Simmons (Brother) Weymouth Falls, NS March 26, 1947 46 Weymouth Falls Baptist Cemetery Commemorated on page 598 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on December 19 Aubrey Simmons was the son of Moses and Ida Belle (Langford) Simmons of Yarmouth, NS. Both parents predeceased Aubrey and his brother Cecil as did a brother Lorenzo and a sister Josephine. Their mother, born in Weymouth, NS, was a dressmaker by trade. She died at the age of 42 years in 1915. The family resided on Main Street in Yarmouth. Their father, Moses A. Simmons was born in Port La Tour, Shelburne Co., NS. They were married in Yarmouth on February 11, 1895. Aubrey served in Canada, the United Kingdom and France during World War I with No 2 Construction Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force, between October 4, 1916 and February 1919. In 1919 he was employed as a Fireman on the SS Canadian Trader. In the eighteen years prior to his enlistment in WWII he lived in Montreal. He was described as having a “cheerful, pleasant disposition”. He served in Canada from June 27, 1940 and went overseas departing Canada on October 6, 1941 disembarking in the United Kingdom on October 19, 1941. On June 1943 he was hospitalized in the United Kingdom. He was returned to Canada because of his disability diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis and was admitted to Ste. Anne’s Military Hospital, Ste Anne’s de Bellevue, Quebec. He was then discharged from Service on October 26, 1943. Sapper Simmons died of advanced pulmonary Tuberculosis at Veterans’ Hospital Cornwallis, NS on March 26, 1947. His death was attributed to his service.