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Major Kenneth William Lee SIMONET.
1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 21 January 1916.
Commemorated Panel 14, Basra Memorial.
Barrie Bertram (<bhbertram@tiscali.co.uk>) has provided the following
information on Major Kenneth Simonet, who was an Old Boy of Queen Victoria
College, Jersey (Channel Islands);-
"Kenneth William Lee Simonet, third son of William Simonet, of Radier,
Grouville, Jersey, entered (Queen Victoria College) in September 1892, at
the age of eleven, and remained for seven years. He was in the Football XV
for two years, 1897 and 1898. In 1899 he obtained a commission in the 2nd
(East) Battalion, RMIJ and in the following year headed the list of Militia
candidates for the Army. He was gazetted to the Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire
Regiment, and became Captain in 1909 and Major in 1916, most of his service
being in India.
At the beginning of the War he was appointed instructing officer to a Territorial
battalion in India, but in December 1915 was attached to the Black Watch and
went to Mesopotamia. He was only once in action. Badly wounded early in an
attack on the Turkish lines, he refused to be sent back, and again led his
men during a further attack, when he was mortally wounded, 21st - 22nd January,
1916."
The following information is given in M L Ferrar's "Officers of the Green
Howards 1688 - 1931";-
Born in Jersey 14 March 1881, son of William Simonet od Radiez (sic), Jersey.
2nd Lieutenant 5 January 1901, Lieutenant 16 January 1904, Captain 1 April
1909.
Killed in action in Mesopotamia 21 January 1916 when attached to the Black
Watch.
"In him the Regiment has lost not only an excellent officer but one of
the most sympathetic of men, and he will be deeply mourned by his comrades.
He was a nephew of the late Lieut-Colonel J F Simonet who served for 14 years
in the 19th." (Green Howards Gazette).
Memorial in Gorey Church, Jersey.
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