Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Corporal E. P. Simmonds, Royal Army Medical Corps
British War and Victory Medals (78291 Cpl. E. P. Simmonds. R.A.M.C.); Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Edgar Pye Simmonds) good very fine

Seven: Corporal E. R. Simmonds, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Liverpool Regiment and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who was wounded in North West Europe in August 1944
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (22258588 Cpl. E. Simmonds. R.A.M.C.) surname partially officially corrected; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (22258588 Pte E. R. Simmonds. R.A.M.C.) good very fine (10) £140-£180

Edgar Pye Simmonds was born in Widness, Lancashire, on 7 May 1888, and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War. He was later employed by the Post Office, and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement.

Edgar Rawcliffe Simmonds was born in Wigan, Lancashire, on 5 April 1915, the son of Edgar Pye Simmonds. He attested for the Liverpool Regiment on 2 August 1934 and served with them during the Second World War in North West Europe from 1 July 1944. Posted to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he was wounded in the stomach on 9 August 1944, and was discharged Class ‘Z’ on 1 August 1946. Re-enlisting in the Royal Army Medical Corps, he saw further service in Korea on attachment to the Black Watch from June 1952 to August 1953, and was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. He died in Southampton in March 1980.

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