The son of Byron and Nellie (Hutchinson) Simpson. DOB: 4/05/1914 at Walkerville, ON. He lived in Windsor until he finished High School.

During the depression of the 1930’s he moved to the Whitebread area of Kent Co., ON., actually south of Whitebread at the corner of the 4^th Concession. He was living and farming on his uncle Percy’s farm also a bachelor farmer. It was his uncle that started calling him “Dick”. As a result Victor was known by most people in the area as Dick for most of his life 

Dick married Margret Ruth (nee Young) CDN 18/12/36 in Dresden at the Anglican church. Dick and his new wife lived with uncle Percy for a time.   

Victor enlisted in 10/08/40, with the Kent Regt. in Chatham, at the time he was 26 and had two children, “the oldest private in the Kent Regiment”. Victor’s wife moved herself and the two children to Dresden. They would have two more children after the war.

The WN 12/09/40  That ‘Dick’ was one of seven Whitebread ‘Soldier Boys’ who had enlisted with the Kent Regt. in Chatham. The WN 16/01/41 reported that his family and friends in Whitebread “tendered a surprise party” at which they presebted Dick with a money belt and a military shaving set in a handsome leather case.  The Wallaceburg News reported that he was home for Mother’s Day 1941.

Victor transferred to the Signals Corps in 1941. After his training in Canada he was shipped out overseas attached to the Royal Canadian Dragoons a ‘Regular Force’ Armoured unit. He trained with that unit before being shipped out to Italy after the fall of Sicily.

He served in the Italian theatre for about a year before being shipped out to Marseille after D-Day joining the Canadian forces in Normandy. He served in Italy, France Belgium and the Netherlands and ended the war near Oldenburg, Germany

Due to his married status he was returned to Canada soon after the war ended. The DN 25/07/45 reported that he was returning from overseas aboard the vessel New Amsterdam 

He was discharged 10/09/45. They would have two more children after the war.

After the war lived the rest of his life in Wallaceburg living at 133 Gillard Street, Wallaceburg in 1980 

Victor passed away in Wallaceburg, ON. in January, 1981.   

   *****overseas Italy, Belgium and Holland.  Discharged September 10, 1945                   

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Awards	Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with Clasp, 1939-1945 Star, Defense of Britain Medal
Sources	email G. G. Simpson email-23/02/18 also 29/03/18, CM-IODE(P)

Birthplace	Windsor, ON
Next of Kin	Byron & Nellie Hutchinson Simpson

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