Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Wm. Simms. “Fox”) fitted with replacement suspension with riveted claw, badly worn overall, therefore poor

William Simms was born in the Parish of Marston, Oxfordshire, and attested for the Royal Marines at Oxford on 9 January 1843, aged 22. He was assigned to 90 Company in the Portsmouth Division and served aboard the following ships: St Vincent, July to December, 1844; Vindictive, January 1845 to June 1848; Fox, September 1850 to May 1854; Excellent, July 1854 to December 1856; St Vincent, July to August, 1857; and finally Cambrian, December 1857 to October 1861. He ‘served on shore in Burmah (1850) and China (1860) and wears the Burmah and China Medals for these services.’ He was discharged at Portsmouth on 16 February 1864 after 21 years 39 days service.

Sold with copied discharge papers.