LEONARD ANDERSON SIMS (1900-1903 : 27), Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, was the fifth and youngest son of Mr Alfred Sims of Wolverhampton.  Like all his brothers, he was a boy of high spirit and full of vitality, so that his choice of a nautical career seemed natural and sensible.  He sailed to many parts of the world and rapidly grew old in experience while still young in years.  The outbreak of war found him in Chinese waters, and he served as Sub-Lieutenant on a torpedo boat during the attack on the German fortress of Tsing-tau.  In the course of this attack, six of the complement of twenty were killed and seven wounded.  Sims being one of the small number who came out of the action unharmed.  Promoted and appointed to H.M.S ‘Diana’, he remained on the China station until the autumn of 1917.  The sad circumstances of his death touched the hearts of those among whom, a stranger, he had come to die, and his funeral was made the occasion of a demonstration as remarkable for the sympathy expressed by the people of Quebec as for the dignity and solemnity with which the rites were conducted.