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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 183

Four: Engineer Lieutenant-Commander R. H. Sims, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Wt. Mech. R. H. Sims, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Cd. Mech. R. H. Sims, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. and G.C. Medal, E.VII.R. (281130 R. H. Sims, Mechanician, H.M.S. Illustrious), generally good very fine (4)

Robert Henry Sims was born at Barford, Wiltshire in November 1875 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in November 1895. He gained advancement to Stoker Petty Officer in July 1906 and to Mechanician in January 1908, following which he was appointed a Warrant Mechanician in January 1913.

During the Great War Sims served in battleship H.M.S. Canopus from April 1915 and in the patrol boat P. 18 from December 1917. He was consequently present in Canopus at the blockade of Smyrna and at her diversionary attack on Bulair during the main Gallipoli landings. In the following month, Canopus came under heavy fire whilst towing her sister ship Albion free of a sandbank off Gaba Tepe. Sims, who was appointed Commissioned Mechanician in January 1918, was finally placed on the Retired List as an Engineer Lieutenant-Commander in February 1933; sold with copied service record.



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