1914-15 Star Trio Sgt & Naval LCGC Medal Engineer Lieutenant Commander Gallipoli

WWI 1914-15 star Trio and Edward VII Long Service Good Conduct medal awarded to Robert Henry Sims with copied service record from 1895 when he joined the Navy as a Stoker until 1912 when he was made a warranted mechanician and thereafter his career is traced through the Royal Navy list to his retirement in February 1933 with the rank of Engineer Lieutenant Commander.  The LSGC was earned when he was serving aboard HMS Illustrious and stamped as such along with his service number 281130 and his then rank of Mechanician. The 1914-5 Star is named to Warranted Mechanician Sims and the war and victory medals are named to Commissioned Mechanician Sims (his ranks on the respective qualifying dates).

The Royal Navy list November 1914 has him serving on HMS Good Hope a crew he joined on 1st October 1914. He must have left very soon afterwards as the Good Hope was sunk by the Scharnorst with the loss of all hands on the 1st November 2014. Sims is one of a handful of officers on the November 1914 list for the Good Hope that weren’t lost with the ship.

The next confirmed posting for Sims on the Navy list is HMS Canopus which he joined on April 23rd 1915. He is listed on the Canopus on the Navy lists for October 1916 and August 1917. He was therefore on board Canopus at the blockade of Smyrna and at her diversionary attack on Bulair during the main Gallipoli landings on April 25th 1915. In May 1915, Canopus came under heavy fire whilst towing her sister ship Albion free of a sandbank off Gaba Tepe and also provided support for Anzacs fighting ashore.

Sims was promoted to Commissioned Mechanician in January 1918, Engineer Lieutenant on 4th February 1925 and finally retired with the rank of Engineer Lieutenant Commander 4th February 1933.

I have posted pictures of the main Navy list entries in the listing but copies of all mentioned lists are included with the medals.

The medals are in good condition with a few contact marks, there’s an edge bump in the LSGC and a corrosion spot on the Victory medal.

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