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SIMS, Robert Alexander
(Service number 8/285)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	20/08/1893	Place of Birth	Invercargill, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	17 August 1914	Age	20
Address at Enlistment	Balclutha,NZ
Occupation	Blacksmith
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John Sims (father) 22 Chambers Street, Glenavon, Northeast Valley, Dunedin
Religion	Unknown
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Regiment
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	HMNZT 5, 9
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	8 August 1915	Age	21
Place of Death	Gallipoli, Turkey
Cause	Killed in action
Notices	New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16023, 15 September 1915, Page 9
Memorial or Cemetery	Chunuk Bair (NZ) Memorial, Gallipoli Turkey
Memorial Reference	Panel 16
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru

Biographical Notes

son of John James and Mary Sims neeMcGillivray. One of twelve children. Lived at 118 Church St, Timaru

Sources

Auckland Cenotaph, CWGC, Historical BMD, PapersPast, NZ Archives War record

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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