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Military service
Service number:
1000349
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
43rd Bn.
Birth:
October 18, 1895
Bethune, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 8, 1916
Swan River, Manitoba
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30
Additional information
Son of Arthur Stera and Ellen Sims of Bowsman River, Manitoba. Brother of Private Stanley Westcott Sims, 226th Battalion, died of illness on 12 July 1916.
Additional citations
British War Medal and Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Roy Harold Sims
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Memorial
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Harold Sims
Digital gallery of
Private Roy Harold Sims
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 326 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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