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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 279

The pre-war General Service Medal awarded to Colour-Sergeant A. D. Sim, Seaforth Highlanders, late King's Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action in Normandy in July 1944

General Service Medal 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3187016 Pte. A. D. Sim, K.O.S.B.), edge nick and bruise, very fine

Archibald Dawson Sim was born in Aberdeen in 1916 and originally enlisted in the King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Having then seen active service in Palestine, he transferred to the Seaforth Highlanders, and it was in this capacity that he was killed in action in Normandy on 10 July 1944, aged 28 years, while serving as a Colour-Sergeant in the 2nd Battalion.

The unit's war diary for that date describes how a two-company attack on a farm was met with 'considerable retaliation', with a loss of three killed and two wounded.

Sim left a widow, Agnes of Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, and is buried in Ranville War Cemetery.

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