Second Lieutenant Gordon Lawrence Sims


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Reference WMO/293789

Address:

St Peter's Church

Church Street

Littleover

DE23 6GF

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Leaded
Conflicts:
  • Colonial India
About the memorial: An addition to a memorial stone on a family grave. The memorial comprises a white marble Latin cross with a Christograph in relief in a roundel at its centre. The cross surmounts a three-stepped base with bevelled tops to each step and is accompanied by oblong kerbs with narrow chamfered edges. The inscriptions are inlaid in upright capital block lettering on the faces of the base and on the upper surface of the kerbs. It is unclear whether this is a WW1 or Colonial India death- here it has been allocated to Colonial India as 1920 would be a bit late to have died of wounds from WW1, but more information would be welcome to be definitive. The gravestone is in the northeast corner of the churchyard, south of the path, by the steps to the war memorial.
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6 o'clock face of base: In Loving Memory/ of/ FREDERICK SAMUEL,/ THE DEARLY LOVED CHILD OF/ GEORGE SAMUEL AND CAROLINE/ MARGARET SIMS,/ WHO FELL ASLEEP MAY 9 1912/ Aged 17 weeks/ "SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME/ FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN."; 9 o'clock face of base: In devoted/ memory of/ CAROLINE/ MARGARET SIMS,/ WHO FELL ASLEEP JAN 20 1943,/ "IN SURE AND CERTAIN HOPE OF THE/ RESURRECTION TO ETERNAL LIFE."; 12 o'clock face of base: Also of/ THEIR DEARLY LOVED/ ELDEST SON/ GEORGE HAROLD/ WHO DIED AT CAPE TOWN, S. AFRICA/ ON JULY 15. 1933, AGED 39 YEARS/ AND WAS BURIED AT SEA.; 3 o'clock face of base: In devoted/ Memory of/ GEORGE SAMUEL,/ VERY DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF/ CAROLINE MARGARET SIMS,/ WHO FELL ASLEEP JULY 10 1925,/ Aged 69 Years/ COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE/ HEAVY LADEN AND WE WILL GIVE YOU REST.; East kerb: ALSO OF OUR THIRD DEARLY LOVED SON GORDON LAWRENCE,; North kerb: 2ND. LIEUT. 36TH. SIKHS. WHO PASSED AWAY ON FEB. 22ND. 1920, AT NOWSHERA. INDIA. Aged 19 years.

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