Robert Simes

Rank: Sergeant

Regiment: 20th Hussars

Father: Mr H Simes

Address: 89 Edmund Road, Clive Vale, Hastings

Other Info: The picture shows Major General Jeffrey’s C.B. pinning the Distinguished Conduct Medal on the breast of Sergeant R Simes, 20th Hussars at Colchester. Sergeant Simes was awarded the medal for “great gallantry and determination after being wounded in action”.

Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.

Published: October 1915

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