SIMMS G.

George Simms 

Private 1779

1st/8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)

George Simms died on Thursday 14th October 1915, Age 22, and is remembered on the LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France.

He was the son of John and Mary Ann Simms, of 11 Club Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. His Uncle, George Bath, and his brother, Richard Simms, are also listed on the Sutton War Memorial.



Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 18th October 1918

 

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’

SIMMS G., born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield. 1/8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 1779, Killed in Action, France & Flanders 15th October 1915*.

 

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Research by Heather Faulkes
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