Profile

SIMS, Robert John
(Service number 40725)

Aliases
First Rank	Lance Corporal	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	26/10/1896	Place of Birth	Fairlie, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	31 October 1916	Age	20
Address at Enlistment	Fairlie, New Zealand
Occupation	Ploughman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John Sims (father) Fairlie, Sth Canterbury
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZ Rifle Brigade
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	NZ Rifle Brigade
Date	14 March 1917
Transport	HMNZT 79, Ruapehu
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Devonport, England

Other Units Served With	NZ Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion, D Company
Last Unit Served With	NZ Rifle Brigade, 2nd Battalion, D Company

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	BWM, VM
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	12 October 1917	Age	21
Place of Death	Ypres, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices	Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16431, 1 January 1918, Page 4
Memorial or Cemetery	Tyne Cot Memorial Sonnebeke, West-Vlaaderen, Belguim
Memorial Reference	NZ Apse, Panel 7
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Fairlie Primary School War Memorial; Fairlie War Memorial

Biographical Notes

son of John and Annie Sims, Fairlie, NZ

Sources

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

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

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