Jack Simmon

Jack was the only son of Joseph Ellis Simmons, of Green Mount, Junction Lane, Horbury, Wakefield. Jack is one of the few in this memoir (at least as far as WW1 Is concerned) who did not join the army. Instead he became a Leading Seaman in the Royal Navy on board H.M.S. "Ardent" (Service number J/9322). He was lost at sea on 1^st June 1916, and his death is commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial (section 12). Portsmouth Naval Memorial commemorates 9,667 sailors of the First World War and 14,918 of the Second World War. His death was remembered in the July 1916 edition of St Mary’s church magazine, when it was noted that he had not been long at the church.