SIMS, Fred Townsend
| Service Number: | 5065 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Kersbrook Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5065, 27th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 5065, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Bulla embarkation_ship_number: A45 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 5065, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Bulla, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 5065, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 5065, 32nd Infantry Battalion |
Fred Townsend Sims
NAME: Fred Townsend Sims
SERVICE NUMBER: 5065
PARENTS: Mark Sims and Mary Ann Sims (nee Smith Townsend)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Riverton
DATE OF BIRTH: 18 February 1876
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT: Adelaide
DATE OF ENLISTMENT: 15 March 1916
AGE AT ENLISTMENT: 40 years 1 month
MARITAL STATUS: Married – wife: Alice Amy Sims; 4 children
NEXT OF KIN: Wife, Alice Amy Sims
OCCUPATION: Miner
RELIGION: Methodist
RANK: Private 27th Battalion
MEMORIALS: Kersbrook Roll of Honor
Fred trained with B Coy 2nd Depot at Mitcham in March 1916, joining the 27th Battalion 13th Reinforcement. His embarked from Adelaide on A45 Bulla on 24 June and disembarked at Plymouth on 24 August. He transferred to the 32nd Battalion on 13 October. His unit were sent to France on 29 September. Fred was hospitalised at Rouen, France with severe myalgia and later received further treatment at the 3rd Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, England and later at Bath Hospital in England on 12 August 1917. Fred was stationed at Weymouth Depot in September, then at Parkhouse No.4 Depot on 14 January 1918. Due to rheumatism still causing much pain and discomfort, on 31 January, Fred embarked the Osterley for the journey home to Australia and was discharged as medically unfit on 29 April 1918.
He was granted a pension of one pound thirty shillings per fortnight from 30 April 1918, with his wife Alice, receiving a fifteen shillings per fortnight pension. Fred was awarded the 1914/15 Star; British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
In 1918, Fred nominated for the District Council seat of Yatala South.
Fred Sims died on 13 September 1944 aged 68.
Source: www.naa;B2455; Sims.F.T.
www.trove.nla.gov/digitised newspapers.
Submitted 25 September 2023 by christopher collins