A family man, father to Irene, Cherry and Nigel, David always put his family first and was always willing to help friends or strangers in need.

A farm lad and youngest of eleven siblings, he joined the war effort in 1939 but was captured in 1940 at St Valery, in France, along with many others of the 51st Highland Division.

After the war David settled in Dundee and started work for the then Dundee
Corporation, first on the school meals delivery service then as a bus conductor. He retired in 1978.

David had many hobbies, especially gardening and DIY, and he liked collecting Scottish antiquarian books and old pocket watches. He also enjoyed motoring trips, collected Scottish songs and Scottish country dance music, and took an interest in Scottish history and archaeology.

Although contracting scarlet fever during the 1920s left him deaf, he taught himself to play the fiddle and spent many a happy hour playing old tunes and learning new ones. Like many who saw action on foreign soil during the war, he didn't venture far from Scotland. But in 1994 he went to Montreal, Canada to celebrate his 80th birthday and to see his sister Charlotte (Chat) for the first time in fifty-eight years.

He was cremated at Dundee and his ashes were buried and a memorial stone laid in a family plot at Birkhill Cemetery, Dundee.

Inserted by his son, Nigel Simpson (nigelrsimpson@btopenworld.com)