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Cmdr. Arthur Edward Silvertop
Royal Navy HMS Defence
(d.31 May 1916)
Commander Arthur Edward Silvertop was killed in action during the Battle of Jutland
Stoker 1st Class. William E. Silvester
Royal Navy HMS Bergamot
(d.13th Aug 1917)
Cpl Alfred Ernest Gilbert Sim
Australian Imperial Forces 10th Australian Machine Gun Coy
My Grandfather was known as Gilbert Sim. He joined the 10th Machine Gun Company in Melbourne on 6th March 1916 left for England with his Company on the 27/05/1916, then left with his Company for France on 22/11/1916. On 6/09/1917 he was transferred to the Grantham Training School in England. On 1/03/1918 he was sent back to France. He was wounded on 27/08/1918 and sent back to the UK. On 25/1/1919 He left England on the Hospital Ship Ceramic for Australia. He was discharged on 30/4/1919.
Pte. Andrew Sim
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots
from:Alva, Clackmannanshire
(d.11th Mar 1915)
Andrew Sim, Private 8855, died aged 32. He was the son of Francis and Agnes George of Alva, Clackmannanshire. Andrew is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.
Pte. John Sim
British Army 6th Btn. Border Regiment
from:Stubble Green, Drigg, Holmrook, Cumberland.
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Spr. L. H. Sim
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
from:57 Helen St. Arbroath, Forfarshire, Scotland
(d.24th Sep 1917)
Pte. Robert Sim
British Army 5th Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
from:23 Princes St., Ayr
(d.12th October 1917)
My great uncle, Robert Sim, was killed on 12th of October 1917 on the first day of the battle for Passchendaele, during Third Battle of Ypres. He is commemorated at the Tyne Cot memorial. Sadly, there was very little left of him due to the terrible conditions and the fierce bombardment that the soldiers were facing.
I believe Robert had returned to the front after a break from duty. I am pretty sure that he was directly hit by artillery fire (possibly a howitzer round). Also his personal belongings were, unfortunately, lost so there s not much information to go on - just notes that were passed to me from my late aunt Margaret before her death around 2011. We went to visit her for the last time at her house in Harrogate.
He was in the 5th Battalion of the Cameron Highlander's (known as the Queen's Own Regiment). This was predominantly made up of Canadian infantry. Robert lost his brother Walter "Wattie" the year before in the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated at Thiepval.
I went to both memorials to pay my respects in February 2016. Such a solemn experience that I will cherish forever. Without these men's actions we would not be living in a free democracy.
Pte. William Albert Simblet
British Army 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Felling
(d.6th October 1918)
Albert Simblet served with 13th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
Pte. William Albert Simblet
British Army 13th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:19 Buller St. Felling
(d.6th October 1918)
My great uncle William Simblet served with the 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry in WW1. His Death Certificate says his name is Albert William Simblet and his headstone says A W Simblet. His actual name is William Albert Simblet.
I believe he may have been wounded on 5th of October 1918 attacking the Hindenburg line with the 25th Division and taken to No.20 Casualty Clearing Station where he died. I visited his grave in Doingt Cemetery, on 6th of October 2018 exactly 100 years to the day he died.
Sgt. Frederick William Simcock MM.
British Army 137th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Sandhurst, Greenbank Rd, Latchford, Warrington
Pte John William "Jack" Simcock
British Army 1st Btn. Sherwood Foresters
(d.27th May 1918)
John Simcock was originally a member of 3rd Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment whom he joined on 25th June 1916. He was transferred to the 1st Sherwood Foresters. He was killed in action on 27th of May 1918.
Driver James Samuel Simister
British Army 173rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Canning Town, Essex
L/Cpl. John Frederick Simister
British Army 10th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Birch Vale
(d.12th Oct 1917)
John Simister was born in Wyke, Yorkshire in 1894 but grew up in New Mills and became a clerk in a print works. Unable to find any details of his enlistment or service in the army. He was serving with the 10th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters at his death on the 12th of October 1917. He was subsequently remembered at Tyne Cot Cemetery.
James Simm
Canadian Expeditionary Force
from:Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pte. John Simm
Army Service Corps 7th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:328 Liverpool Road, Haydock,Lancashire
Pte. Richard Simm
British Army 12th Battalion, A Coy. Durham Light Infantry
from:55 School Terrace, South Moor, County Durham.
My Grandfather, Richard Simm, was born on the 10th October 1893 at number 7 Douglas Street, Stanley, County Durham. One of twelve children born to Joseph and Sarah Jane Simm. At the age of 14 years he left school and started work as a coal miner at the local colliery.
At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 he was the eldest son alive and he felt it was his duty to enlist. He joined the Durham Light Infantry and served with A Coy the 12th Battalion.
The Battalion arrived in France on the 26th August 1915. It saw action on the Somme at Pozieres in July 1916 and Le Transloy in October. In 1917 During the third Ypres he fought at Messines. In November 1917 they where sent to Italy and fought in the battles at Piave and Vittorio Veneto.
In 1919 my Grandfather was discharged and he went back to been a Coal Miner. He married his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth Raine on the 28th June 1919. They had three daughters, one of them my mother, Elizabeth Simm. In the Second World War my Grandfather served as a Sergeant in the Home Guard at South Moor, County Durham. He died on the 5th January 1983 at the South Moor Miners Hospital aged 89 years.
Pte William Simm
British Army 15th Btn Cheshire Regiment
from:Wooler, Northumberland
(d.21st Oct 1916)
Simm, William. Private, 23379, Killed in action on 21st October 1916. Aged 22 years.
Buried in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Somme, in grave VI. C. 1.
The 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers records show that Pte Simm was a member of the 19th Btn with service number 19/396. He had transferred to the 15th Btn, Cheshire Regiment and was killed with them.
Son of Jane Ann and the late John Simm, of Wooler, Northumberland.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. R. W. Simmers
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Scots
(d.19th May 1918)
Pte. R. W. Simmers was executed for desertion 19/05/1918 and buried in Chocques Military Cemetery, Chocques, France.
Dvr. Charles Simmonds
British Army 271 Bde. A Bty Royal Field Artillery
This is a picture of my great uncle Charles Simmonds taken in 1915, when he was 20 years of age. He was a driver in the The 54th (East Anglian) Division.
The Divisional Artillery remained in England when the Division moved to Gallipoli. It moved independently to France in November 1915 coming under the command of 33rd Division. Officers and men were attached to the Divisional Artillery of the 2nd, 7th and 12th Divisions. It moved to Egypt and rejoined the Division in Egypt in February 1916.
I don't know too much about him, other than he lived to a ripe old age.
Cpl. George Henry Simmonds
British Army 42nd Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Stourport
Harry Simmonds
HMHS Neuralia
This is a letter from my great uncle Harry Simmonds to his brother Charles, written whilst he was onboard HMHS Neuralia in the Med.
Sgt. Henry Shaun Simmonds
British Army 1/6th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:19 Randolph Rd, East London
(d.1st Apr 1917)
Henry Simmonds served with the 1/6th Battalion, Essex Regiment.
Cpl. James Herbert Simmonds
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Commissioned to Northumberland Fusiliers 28th May 1918
Pte. John Simmonds
British Army 1/5th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Ampthill
(d.5th November 1918)
John Simmonds, son of William J. Simmonds of Watford, husband of Ethel Simmonds, 16 Royal Oak Road, Woking was born at East Cowes, Isle of Wight. He enlisted at Luton and initially served with Bedfordshire Regiment then with the 1/5th Battalion,, Lancashire Fusiliers (service no.40380).
He died at home on 5th of November 1918 age 29 years and is buried in St. Andrews Churchyard. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
2Lt. Leslie Bernard Simmonds
Royal Air Force 57 Squadron
from:Newport
(d.16th Sep 1918)
Leslie Simmonds was an Observer/Bomber with 57 Squadron.
Pte. Maurice Simmonds
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.25th Apr 1915)
L/Cpl. Owen Williams Simmonds
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Walter Wallis Simmonds
British Army 3rd Battalion London Regiment
from:Battersea
(d.25th April 1918)
Walter Simmonds was my great grandfather. He died at Villers Bretonneux.
Pte. Herbert Henry Simmonite
British Army 1st Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Darnall, Sheffield
Herbert Simmonite enlisted at age 16 in WW1 and served with the 1st and 6th Battalions, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He landed in France on 25th of May 1915, two months short of his 17th birthday, with the 6th (Service) Battalion at Boulogne-Sur-Mer and possibly took part in the Battle of Loos in September 1915, after which they went to Marseilles on 21st of October, where they boarded transport ships on 24th of October and then finally disembarked at Salonika in December 1916. Herbert subsequently returned to the Western Front and was discharged in 1919. He lived a long life and died in 1960.
Pte. Constant Samuel Simmons
British Army Machine Gun Corps Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Wickham, Newbury, Berkshire
Sam Simmons was treated at The Mount, Red Cross Hospital in Torquay. He served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps.
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