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The Roll lists his address as 78 Clarence Road. It misrecords him as "Edwin Sidney Simms"; his name was actually Edwin Sydney Sims.
(CWGC records that Private E S Sims, regimental number 46647, died aged 20 on 21/9/1918 serving in the 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave I.E.6 at Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension in France. They record him as the son of Mr A Sims of 67 Council Cottages, Drove Road, Biggleswade. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Edwin Sidney Sims' legatee was his father Arthur. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Edwin as a native of Sandy, Bedfordshire who enlisted at Northampton. Edwin Sydney Sims' birth was registered in the Biggleswade District in 1898. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Arthur and Emily at Station Road, Gamlingay; his place of birth was given as Sandy. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at South End, Bassingbourn).