Simon Peter Coubrough ^1,2

  General Notes:

Never married and had no children.

in the 5th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (WWI), as was his older brother, John. In 1917, the unit fought at Cambrai, Passchendale, Vimy Ridge and Arras. In 1918, they were at St Quentin, Rosieres, and Amiens. Uncle Simon is listed in the Canadian Books Of Remembrance at the Parliament Buildings (1917 pg 390).

Simon and his older brother John probably took the train together to Weyburn, where they both joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on January 4, 1916. According to his Attestation (enlistment) Papers, Uncle Simon was 19 years 11 months when he joined up on January 4, 1916 at Weyburn, Saskatchewan. At 5' 5-3/4", he was slightly shorter than his brother John, but had a similary build with a 35" chest which could expand a full 3". This description gives a picture of slender, fair-complected young man, with grey eyes and light brown hair. He had no scars or distinguishing marks. Several pictures of him in uniform show him as shy-looking young man who seemed to take life seriously.

This is the information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records:

In Memory of

Simon Coubrough

Private
925137
"D" Coy. 5th Bn., Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regt.)
who died on
Wednesday, 2nd May 1917. Age 21.

Additional Information: Son of Mathew and Elizabeth Coubrough, of Ogema, Saskatchewan.

Commemorative Information

Cemetery: AUBIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Grave Reference/ II. F. 17.
Panel Number:
Location: Aubigny-en-Artois is a village approximately 15 kilometres north-west of Arras on the road to St. Pol. Turning into the village from the N.39 on the D.75, the Cemetery lies south on a road leading from the centre of the village.

Historical Information: Aubigny was, before March, 1916, in the area of the French Tenth Army, and 327 French soldiers were buried in the Extension to the West of what is now Plot IV. From March, 1916, to the Armistice, Aubigny was held by British troops, and the Extension became a large British Cemetery, in use until September, 1918. The 42nd Casualty Clearing Station buried in it during the whole period, the 30th in 1916 and 1917, the 24th and 1st Canadian in 1917 (during the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps), and the 57th in 1918.

There are now nearly 3,000, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45, war casualties commemorated in this site.

The Cemetery Extension covers an area of 6,545 square metres.