Service Number: 1510
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 10th Infantry Battalion
World War 1 Service
19 Feb 1915: Involvement Private, SN 1510, 10th Infantry Battalion
19 Feb 1915: Embarked Private, SN 1510, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Melbourne
SIMMONDS Harry :
Service Number - 1510 :
Place of Birth - Birkenhead SA :
Place of Enlistment - Oaklands SA :
Next of Kin - (Mother) SIMMONDS Lilla
Contents date range : 1914 - 1920
Series number : B2455
Control symbol : SIMMONDS HARRY
Citation NAA: B2455, SIMMONDS HARRY
Item ID 8083921
Location Canberra
Access status Open
Date of decision 09 Dec 2005
Physical format PAPER FILES AND DOCUMENTS (allocated at series level)
Records authority class number 1023540
Date registered 11 Apr 2005
1510 L/Cpl Harry SIMMONDS. 1Oth Btn, 50th Btn & 70th Btn Wounded in Action - no memorial on KI
Harry’s father Captain George Silas SIMMONDS died in 1913 and is buried in Penneshaw Cemetery. His mother was Elizabeth LASHMAR. Harry was born at Birkenhead on 19 February 1891. He married Dorothy Grace NEAVE in St Bartholomew’s, Norwood on 3 December 1917.
After the war he did a stint as lighthouse keeper on Althorpe Island. He then had a trading ketch Wellington which caught fire at Port Adelaide. The family moved to Kingscote where he reverted to fishing in the cutter Vectris. This was wrecked at Dashwood Bay in July 1932. Simmonds was captain of the Cheopis from about 1934 to 1941. He later enlisted in the Small Ships Section, USA SOS SWPA .
After the war he returned to the Pacific and had a banana plantation in the Philippines and for a time joined a Norwegian shipping line trading between Japan and New York. Before retiring he was fishing with Nils Swanson and running a cray fishing boat Peloris. With health failing he went to Sydney to join his daughter. He died there in July 1973 and is buried in an unmarked grave at Botany Cemetery in Matraville.
- Chris Ward
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1. George Silas SIMMONDS was born ABT 1844 and died 30 Jun 1913 in Penneshaw, Kangaroo Islad, SA. He married Ann ARCHER 02 Aug 1865 in Adelaide, SA. She was born ABT 1833 and died 05 Sep 1872 in Port Adelaide, SA. He married Eliza LASHMAR 30 Nov 1874 in Adelaide, SA. She was born 15 Jan 1850 in Thebarton, SA and died 1937 in Woollahra, NSW, daughter of Thomas Young LASHMAR and Jane RUSHALL.
Other events in the life of George Silas SIMMONDS
Burial: Penneshaw Cemetery, SA
Children of George Silas SIMMONDS and Eliza LASHMAR:
i. Annie Jane SIMMONDS was born 25 Apr 1876 in Semaphore, SA
ii. 2. George SIMMONDS was born 21 Jun 1878 in Semaphore Rd, SA and died 07 Feb 1957 in Port Pirie, SA
iii. Fanny Lashmar SIMMONDS was born 19 Dec 1883 in Birkenhead, SA and died 11 Mar 1886 in Birkenhead, SA
iv. John SIMMONDS was born 05 Oct 1886 in Birkenhead, SA and died 19 Jul 1890 in Birkenhead, SA
v. Joseph SIMMONDS was born 09 Dec 1888 in Birkenhead, SA and died 28 Jun 1894 in Birkenhead, SA
vi. 3. Thomas SIMMONDS was born 09 Dec 1888 in Birkenhead, SA
vii. 4. Harry (Pop) SIMMONDS was born 19 Feb 1891 in Birkenhead, SA and died 15 Jul 1973 in Sydney, NSW
Children of George Silas SIMMONDS and Ann ARCHER:
viii. Hannah Elizabeth SIMMONDS was born 09 Jun 1867 in Le Fevre Peninsula, SA and died 10 Nov 1867 in Le Fevre Peninsula, SA
2. George SIMMONDS was born 21 Jun 1878 in Semaphore Rd, SA and died 07 Feb 1957 in Port Pirie, SA. He married Florence Isabel RUSSELL 30 Oct 1911 in Solomontown, SA. She was born 19 Jun 1874 in Port Adelaide, SA and died 21 Sep 1950 in Port Pirie, SA.
3. Thomas SIMMONDS was born 09 Dec 1888 in Birkenhead, SA. He married Catherine Maria Scott LINNETT 26 Oct 1916 in Norwood, SA. She was born 02 Aug 1894 in Norwood, SA.
4. Harry (Pop) SIMMONDS was born 19 Feb 1891 in Birkenhead, SA and died 15 Jul 1973 in Sydney, NSW. He married Dorothy Grace NEAVE 04 Dec 1917 in Norwood, SA. She was born 19 Jul 1895 in Hog Bay, Kangaroo Island, SA and died 23 Nov 1969 in Sydney, NSW, daughter of Samuel Francis NEAVE and Julia Harriet WILLSON.
Other events in the life of Harry (Pop) SIMMONDS
Electoral roll: BET 1939 & 1941, Kingscote, Kangaroo Island
Children of Harry (Pop) SIMMONDS and Dorothy Grace NEAVE:
i. 5. Blanche Marie SIMMONDS was born 13 Aug 1921 in Woodville, SA and died 20 Jan 2006 in Hobart, Tasmania. She married Edward Clarence DEERING 23 Jul 1942 in Semaphore, SA. He was born 03 Mar 1920 in Epping, NSW and died 17 Jun 1991 in Sydney, NSW.
Last updated : 15 Oct 2021