PRIDE OF OUR HOME WAS HE
WE GAVE HIM UP O GOD
FOR COUNTRY AND FOR THEE

PRIVATE GEORGE SIMMS

NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT

30TH DECEMBER 1915 AGE 27

BURIED: LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY, TURKEY


Private George Simms was a fisherman from Pilley's Island, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. He embarked from Newfoundland in March 1915 and arrived on Gallipoli in September. He died of wounds, "shell wound leg and abdomen severe", received in action at Cape Helles on the same day - 30 December 1915. Among the effects returned to his mother were his identity disc, cigarette case, a packet of photographs and letters, and a bible, the latter confirming the devotion to God that his inscription also implied.