Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Riding Master and Captain T. A. Sims, Royal Field Artillery, who died of wounds received on the Western Front on 19 May 1915

1914 Star (Hon: Capt: & R.M. T. A. Sims. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (R.M. & Capt. T. A. Sims.) extremely fine and rare to rank (3) £240-£280

Thomas Augustus Sims was born in Putney, London, in 1875, and is recorded in 1911 at Bulford Camp as a married Riding Master and Honorary Lieutenant. Stated upon his MIC as holding Special Appointment as Assistant Provost Marshal to 3rd Division, he ceased to continue in this role from 22 September 1914 and travelled to France with the British Expeditionary Force. It was here that he died of wounds on 19 May 1915, most likely in a Base Hospital on the Channel coast. He is buried in St. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France.