John Joseph Sims
{{short description|Recipient of the Victoria Cross}}
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|birth_date= {{Birth year|1835}}
|death_date= {{Death date and given age|1881|12|6|46|df=yes}}
|birth_place=Bloomsbury, London, England
|death_place=Union Workhouse, City of London, England
|placeofburial=City of London Cemetery, Manor Park
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|rank=Private
|branch=23px British Army
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|unit=34th Regiment of Foot
|battles=Crimean War
|awards= Victoria Cross
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John Joseph Sims VC (1835 – 6 December 1881) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Details
File:John Joseph Sims VC grave marker City of London Cemetery 2.jpg
Sims was about 19 years old, and a private in the 34th Regiment of Foot (later the Border Regiment), British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 18 June 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea, after the regiment had retired into the trenches from the assault on the Redan, Private Sims went out under very heavy fire in broad daylight and brought in wounded soldiers outside the trenches.{{London Gazette |issue=21971 |date=24 February 1857 |page=659 }}
Sims died of tuberculosis in the Union Workhouse, London on 6 December 1881.{{Cite web |title=John Joseph Sims VC |url=http://www.vconline.org.uk/john-j-sims-vc/4588239408 |access-date=7 October 2020 |website=vconline}}
References
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- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20041214232232/http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/stewart/loneast.htm Location of grave and VC medal] (E. London)
- [http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/bbsims.htm Profile]
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Category:British recipients of the Victoria Cross
Category:Crimean War recipients of the Victoria Cross
Category:British Army personnel of the Crimean War
Category:Border Regiment soldiers
Category:People from Bloomsbury
Category:19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Category:British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross
Category:Tuberculosis deaths in England
Category:Military personnel from the London Borough of Camden