Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1238

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£850

A rare Great War M.M. pair awarded to Lance-Corporal T. Simm, Royal Marines Medical Unit, attached 63rd Royal Naval Division

Military Medal
, G.V.R. (S-3337 Pte. T. Simm, Med. Unit R.M.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Deal 3337 - S - L. Cpl., R.M.), one or two edge bruises, otherwise very fine and better (2) £450-500

M.M. London Gazette 26 March 1917. The original recommendation states:

‘For conspicuous courage in attending to, and bringing in wounded under heavy fire in a forward area in operations north of the River Ancre on 7 February 1917.’

Thomas Simms, a coal miner from Edmondsley, Durham, who was born in February 1886, enlisted in the Royal Marines at Crystal Palace in January 1915. Embarked for France as a Medic in the following month, he appears to have remained on active service right through until the end of hostilities, and was awarded his M.M. for gallant services in the 2nd (R.N.) Field Ambulance, 63rd Royal Naval Division. Simm was demobilised in January 1919.