Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel T. C. Sims, Edmonton Regiment, late 1st Canadian Infantry

1914-15 Star (Lieut., 1/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Lt. Col. T. C. Sims, 29th Inf. Bde.’, lacking top bar, mounted as worn; together with Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (Lt. Col. T. C. Sims, Edmn. Regt.) good very fine and better (7) £340-380

The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal awarded in 1924; the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration awarded in 1927.

With a photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Sims in uniform wearing his W.W.1 trio and long service medal; together with another photograph with the recipient and other soldiers with silver trophies.

For his son’s medals see lot 540.