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Auction: 16003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 89

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Pair: Mechanic Staff Sergeant A.J. Simms, Royal Army Service Corps, Died of Sickness, 7.1.1916, The Father of A Great War Albert Medal Recipient
British War and Victory Medals (M2-077241 S.Sjt. A.J. Simms. A.S.C.), extremely fine, together with the recipient's Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Arthur John Simms), this pierced at 3 and 9 o'clock, and Parchment Memorial Scroll 'Mec.C.Serjt. Arthur John Simms. Royal Army Service Corps' (2)

M2-0077241 Mechanic Staff Sergeant Arthur John Simms, born 1864; listed as living at 78 Ebury Road, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire; served with the Royal Army Service Corps at the Motor Transport Depot during the Great War; died of sickness, 7.1.1919, aged 52 and is buried at the Sunbury New Cemetery, Middlesex.

For the medals to his son, Corporal A.E. Simms, A.M., see Lot 1.

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Sold for
£160