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Pte. W. Simpson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Benwell
A Sinclair was discharged in 1916
Pte. William Simpson
British Army 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:6 Dover Tce West Stanley Co Durham
William joined up in Sept 1914 and left for France on 25th August 1915. He was accidently shot in the leg by a colleague on 24th March 1916 and returned home to recover. He returned to France in May 1917 but was shot in the shoulder (presumably this time by the enemy!) and returned to England in June 1917, being discharged as unfit for service in Dec 1919. He suffered from being gassed and his war wounds and died in Dec 1920 aged 36 years. I have been told he was buried with a military headstone in St George's South Moor.
Lt. William John Sydney Simpson MC
British Army 8th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Ealing
Bill Simpson originally enlisted as Rifleman 580 in the the 9th London Regiment (Queen VictoriaĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s Rifles) Territorial Force on the 4th of January 1909. He was embodied on 5th of August 1914 and posted to France with the QVRs on the 14th of November 1914. He was appointed Lance Corporal and Acting Corporal on the 28th of December 1914. The QWVRs were engaged in the Battle of Hill 60 on 21st of April 1915 and Cpl Simpson returned to England on the 27th of April, presumably because he was injured.
He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the the Middlesex Regiment and posted to the 4/8th Battalion on the 23rd of August 1915. He returned to France on the 5th of September 1915, joining the 8th Btn. At the Battle of Loos on 25th of Sept 1915 the 8th Middlesex were in support, holding trenches with machine guns and carrying tools and water. At the Battle of Ginchy on the Somme on 9th of Sept 1916 the 8th Middlesex made a Trench assault, where Lt W.J.S. Simpson was injured. At the the Battle of Flers-Courcelette 15th to 22nd Sept they were in a close assault at Bouleaux Wood. In the First Battle of the Scarpe and Vimy Ridge: 9th to 14th of April 1917 the 8th Middlesex made an assault over no-manĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s land to take trenches on 9th and final capture of village of Neuville Vitasse with further bombing of trenches on 11th.
William was promoted to Lieutenant on the 1st of July 1917. During the Battle of Langemark between the 16th and 18th of August 1917 the 8th Middlesex made an assault under machine gun fire and counter attack including aerial attack.
At the battle of Cambai on 20th to 21st of Nov 1917 they mounted a decoy attack and during the capture of Bourlon Wood on 23rd to 28th of Nov they were in support with decoys. The German counter attacks took place from the 30th Nov to 3rd of Dec they were in defence of captured trenches in Hindenburg Line where Lt. W.J.S. Simpson was captured. He remained a POW for the rest of the war but was moved and interned in Switzerland on 2nd of October 1918. He was repatriated on 25th of December 1918.
He was attached to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps Woolwich Arsenal from January 1919 and he was seconded to the Foreign Office Inter-allied Police Service. He was Chief of the Inter-allied Police in Rybrick Upper Silesia in 1921 and was engaged in the uprisings. He returned to Civilian life in 1926 and was recalled to Service on 10th of July 1939 and was appointed Lieutenant in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, but was unfit for service overseas, he served in No 4 Training Battalion at Hillsea and Stirling until retiring in 1942. He died on the 3rd of November 1956.
Interallied Police at Rybrick
William Bernard Simpson
British Army Grenadier Guards
from:Laugton, Rotherham
William Simpson was treated for shrapnel wound to right wrist received in France 8th October 1915
Pte. William Simpson
British Army 7th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hull, East Yorkshire
(d.29th July 1917)
Relatives of William Simpson who are now deceased, told me that he was wounded I think sometime in 1916 and was returned to England and treated in a military hospital before being sent home for a period of convalescence. When he was recalled, he went round and visited his family members and told them goodbye as he wouldn't be home again. He was killed at Brown's Copse on 29th of July 1917 and is buried in France.
Pte. William Edward Simpson
British Army 20th Labour Coy. Army Service Corps
(d.1917)
Sister. Sims
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 16 Stationary Hospital
Sgt. Arthur Sims MM.
Royal Engineers 180th Tunnelling Coy.
(d.15th Nov 1918)
Arthur Sims, my great uncle, was killed on 15th of November 1918 whilst clearing mines and booby traps in Epehy, France. He died along with 7 others, Lance Cpl. James Price, 2nd Lieut. P. Barclay, Lt H. Mellish, C. Caines, A. Wilson, Pte. A. Hancock and E.W. Wilber M.M. They are all buried in Templeux-le-Guerard Cemetery.
Able Sea. Harry Sims
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Macedonia
from:Avonmouth, Bristol
(d.2nd December 1917)
Harry Sims was the son of Charles and Polly Sims; husband of Lily Maud Sims, of "Glencairn", Penpole View, Avonmouth, Bristol.
He was 23 when he died and is buried in the Gamboa British Cemetery in Brazil, Sect. AA. Row 1. Grave 4.
Able Sea. Harry Sims
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Macedonia
from:Avonmouth, Bristol
(d.2nd December 1917)
Harry Sims was the son of Charles and Polly Sims; husband of Lily Maud Sims, of "Glencairn", Penpole View, Avonmouth, Bristol.
He was 23 when he died and is buried in the Gamboa British Cemetery in Brazil, Sect. AA. Row 1. Grave 4.
Pte. Wilfred James Simshauser
Australian Imperial Force 33rd Battalion
from:Camo Santo,Barraba, New South Wales, Australia
(d.30th Mar 1918)
When Wilfred was wounded, and while he was recovering in England, he met a young woman named Alice Ferguson with whom he corresponed when he returned to the Western Front.
When he was killed in action on his body was a letter adressed to Miss Ferguson.A Corporal Evans found this letter and posted it to Miss Ferguson of the Australian Postal Section in London. Alice did not find out about Wilfred's death until three months later.
Pte. A. Sinclair
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
Pte. Albert Sinclair
Australian Imperial Force. 38th Btn.
from:Durham Ox, Victoria
My great grandfather, Albert Sinclair was taken on strength of the 38th Battalion as part of the 3rd reinforcements on the 26rh of January 1917. During his time with the Battalion he was Gassed on the 13th of October 1917 and wounded a second time on the 17th of July 1918 with a gun shot wound to his left hand. I do not know much more about him.
Sgt. Cyril Sinclair
Australian Imperial Force 33rd Btn.
from:Dorrigo, NSW
Cpl. David Sinclair
British Army 29th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
from:Ballywilliam, Portrush
(d.11th April 1918)
David Sinclair served with 29th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. During family research I found David, a relation that I had never heard about. Am trying to find out more, especially to confirm his relationship to me.
Cpl. Frank Hanson Sinclair
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Commissioned into Yorks Regiment
Pte. George Ebenezer Bertram Sinclair
British Army 101st Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Gateshead
My brother and I have Grandad, George Sinclair's notebook including instructions on firing forward bearings and his Barrage Orders for 20th of September 1917 at the Battle of Menin Road (from Mt Sorrel). We also have his bible with personal notes from that time.
He told a story of walking through Gateshead years later and needing a match for his pipe, he kicked an empty matchbox which turned out to be full, this reminded him of a similar experience in battle involving empty ammo boxes.
Pte. John Sinclair
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. John Campbell Anderson Sinclair
British Army 8th Btn. Black Watch
from:Detroit, Michigan USA
(d.14th Oct 1918)
John Sinclair served with the 8th Battlion, Black Watch.
Rflmn. W. Sinclair
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.10th May 1916)
Rifleman Sinclair was the husband of Annie Sinclair, 37 Beech Street, Donegall Pass, Belfast.
He was killed on 10th May 1916 in Elgin Avenue and is buried in Authuille Military Cemetery, Authuille, Grave C.17. He was 38 years old.
Pte. William Frederick Sinclair
British Army Welsh Regiment
from:Poplar, London
William Sinclair enlisted 10th March 1911 and entered Theatre of War France on 16th Jan 1915, he was discharged due to wounds 21 August 1919. He was married with one son also named William Frederick Sinclair,born 1911. After the War he never returned home and joined the Fleetwood Fishing Fleet serving on the MV 'Rachel' registered at Fleetwood. He complained of constant 'Gas' attacks to the crew, unfortunately whilst docked at Milford Haven on the 25 August 1924 other crew members heard him complain of a 'Gas' attack he went up top and was being sick when they heard a splash and he disappeared believed having fallen over board. After a search his body was found the next day. An inquest was held on the 4th September 1924 and a decision of accidental death was recorded with the War being a contributing factor.
A very sad and familiar story of a regular Soldier stationed in India before the War who went to war and suffered as a result of 'the Gas' unfortunately his son (my father) never knew his father and I never knew my grandfather. It took many years to even trace who he was and where he went, I am still unable to trace where he was buried. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British war medal,Victory Medal I have never seen a photograph of him but through the search to trace him I have seen photo's of his Grandfather.
Update I have since learnt that in 1921 I believe bigamously he married a Mary Richardson in 1921 in Blackpool, I can find no trace of any children.
George James Sines
from:Carshalton
George Sines was my paternal grandfather, I know he was shot in the ear but survived. After the war he and my grandmother lived at 4 Johnson's Close, Carshalton in Surrey.
Pte. James Sines
British Army 2nd Btn. Cheshire Rgt.
from:Kensington, London
(d.8th May 1915)
Jimmy Sines was a family member adopted by my 2x gt. aunt Lydia Emma (nee Greaves) and her husband James Sines, a regular Army veteran. A very childlike-looking lad of barely 21, he was lost without trace at the 2nd Battle of Ypres on 8th May 1915. His devastated parents received Ć‚Ā£11 in exchange for their boy.
His name is known to those who remain in England, America and Australia. His photograph is cherished and his war medal photocopied and distributed amongst the family. He is remembered as 'poor little Jimmy Sines'. So few of his 2nd Btn. Cheshire regiment survived the pulverising German bombardment. Its remnants were combined with others and moved on to the next hell hole.
Because Jimmy's friends were wiped out with him, no one was able to tell his parents exactly what happened. Poor Lydia and James were left believing Jimmy drowned in the mud and it haunted them all their days. I prefer to hope his sufferings were brief and he and his immediate comrades were blown to oblivion.
The Sines family in the mid 1800s were travelling basket and chair makers, who were `on the tramp' round Surrey following the cycle of harvesting, making and hawking. By the later decades this branch of the family were settled around the Epsom Common area, seemingly escaping the harsher life of travelling, seasonal recourse to the workhouse and the vagrancy and semi-criminal life of some of the younger, more feckless cousins. Jimmy's father, James Sines, is believed to have been a relative rather than his biological father. However, they strongly resembled one another. James Snr. hardly spent any time with his parents and siblings and joined the Army, serving in two Burma campaigns. He spent much of his career hospitalised with a variety of fevers, malaria etc and the ubiquitous 'ague'. It is not known how he met my 2x gt aunt whose parents also lived in Epsom, but were slightly better off, being a bailiff officer of Epsom court and ex-metropolitan policeman. James Snr. was an upright Victorian man who wore his campaign medals on special occasions with pride, but must have known only too well what lay ahead for Jimmy when the boy enlisted for the Great War. James and Lydia never recovered from their loss.
Boy. Maurice Edward Siney
Royal Navy
from:Portsmouth
My grandfather Maurice Siney served in the Royal Navy during the First World War as Boy1. Records show his conduct as Very Good and he continued in the Navy until after the 2nd World War often serving in training establishments.
Pte. Thomas Henry Sinfield
British Army 4th Battalion London Regiment
from:Bethnal Green, London.
(d.22nd Aug 1918)
Thomas Henry Sinfield, born 1885, he joined up with the 2/4th Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) sometime between January and February of 1915. Sadly killed on the 22nd of August 1918 and buried in his final resting place in the Military Cemetery in Le Cateau, France.
Rldr. Badlu Sing VC.
British Indian Army 14th Murray's Jat Lancers
from:Mukerera, Chapra, Bihar, India.
(d.23rd Sep 1918)
Badlu Singh was a risaldar in the 14th Murray's Jat Lancers, Indian Army, attached to 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse). He was awarded the Victoria Cross for actions on 23rd of September 1918 at Kh. es Samariyeh, Jordan River, Palestine
"On the morning of the 23rd September 1918, his squadron charged a strong enemy position on the west bank of the river Jordan, between the river and Kh. es Samariyeh village. On nearing the position, Risaldar Badlu Singh realised that the squadron was suffering casualties from a small hill on the left front occupied by machine guns and 200 infantry. Without the slightest hesitation he collected six other ranks and with the greatest dash and total disregard for danger, charged and captured the position, thereby saving very heavy casualties to the squadron. He was mortally wounded on the very top of the hill when capturing one of the machine guns single handed, but all the machine guns and infantry had surrendered to him before he died. His valour and initiative were of the highest order."
Rflmn. Kharak Sing
British Indian Army 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles
(d.24th June 1915)
Rifleman Kharak Sing is buried in the Hasenheide Garrison Cemetery in Germany.
Gnr. Arjan Singh
British Army Indian Army Royal Garrison Artillery
(d.25th August 1916)
Gunner Singh was cremated and his name is recorded on a white granite obelisk in the Hong Kong Hindu and Sikh Cremation Memorial in Hong Kong.
Risaldar. Badlu Singh VC.
British Indian Army attd. 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse), 14th Murray's Jat Lancers
from:Rohtak, Punjab
(d.23rd Sep 1918)
Badlu Singh died on 23/09/1918. He is commemorated on the Port Tewfik Memorial in the Heliopolis War Cemetery in Egypt. He was the son of Lal Singh, of Dhakla, Jhajjar, Rohtak, Punjab.
An extract from the Second Supplement to the London Gazette dated 26th Nov., 1918, records the following:- "For the most conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice on the morning ofthe 23rd Sept., 1918, when his squadron charged a strong enemy position on the West bank of the Jordan between the river and Khes Samariveh Village. On nearing the position Ressaidar Badlu Singh realised that the squadron was suffering casualties from a small hill on the left front occupied by machine guns and 200 infantry. Without the slightest hesitation he collected six other ranks and with the greatest dash and an entire disregard of danger charged and captured the position, thereby saving very heavy casualties to the squadron. He was mortally wounded on the very top of the hill when capturing one of the machine guns single-handed, but the guns and infantry had surrendered before he died. His valour and initiative were of the highest order."
Hldr. Chatta Singh VC.
British Indian Army 9th Bhopal Infantry
from:India
Chatta Singh was a Sepoy in the 9th Bhopal Infantry, Indian Army when he was awarded the VC. On 13 January 1916 during the Battle of the Wadi, Mesopotamia, Sepoy Chatta Singh left cover to assist his commanding officer, who was lying wounded and helpless in the open. The citation for the Victoria Cross reads:
"For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty in leaving cover to assist his Commanding Officer who was lying wounded and helpless in the open. Sepoy Chatta Singh bound up the Officer's wound and then dug cover for him with his entrenching tool being exposed all the time to very heavy rifle fire. For five hours until nightfall he remained beside the wounded Officer, shielding him with his own body on the exposed side. He then, under cover of darkness, went back for assistance, and brought the Officer into safety."
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