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Is anyone searching for information about Arthur Hunter Simms, who died on the HMS Challenger whilst docked in Adelaide, South Australia?
Have details about him and a photograph of his grave if anyone is interested.

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Out of interest I Googled HMS Challenger. I thought that there might be some organisation for it. Can you roughly date the photograph and what was his age when he died?

From Wiki

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Challenger, most famously the survey vessel Challenger that carried the Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876.
The first Challenger was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1811.
The second Challenger was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1813 and later used as a store hulk before being sold in 1824.
The third Challenger was a 28-gun 6th rate launched in 1826 and wrecked off Chile in 1835. Under the command of Charles Fremantle, it was in part responsible for the creation of the colony of Western Australia in 1829.
The fourth Challenger was to have been an 18-gun corvette of 810 tons; the ship was ordered from Chatham Dockyard in 1845, but cancelled in 1848.
The fifth Challenger was a screw corvette launched in 1858, converted to a survey ship in 1872 in preparation for her famous voyage, hulked in 1880, and sold in 1921. The research ship Glomar Challenger and the Space Shuttle Challenger were named after this ship.
The sixth Challenger was a "2nd class cruiser" (a protected cruiser) of the Challenger class in service from 1902 to 1920.
The seventh Challenger was a survey ship launched in 1931 and broken up 1954.
The eighth Challenger, the RN's first purpose built ship for support of saturation diving missions, was launched in 1981 and sold in 1993.

Dates would help.....as would info about his nationality

He is listed on Australia Death Index on Ancestry for 1908 but I do not have access to that record

Nor do I have access to Australia birth index

Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
about Arthur Hunter Simms
Name: Arthur Hunter Simms
Death Date: 4 Jun 1908
Death Place: Adelaide
Age: 18
Residence Place: Manly (Nsw)
Registration Place: Adelaide, South Australia
Page Number: 456
Volume Number: 333
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1890
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The sixth Challenger was a "2nd class cruiser" (a protected cruiser) of the Challenger class in service from 1902 to 1920.

Thanks Thelma

Maybe,
Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
about Arthur H Simms
Name: Arthur H Simms
Birth Date: 1889
Father's Name: Clarence A Simms
Mother's name: Margaret M
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1889
Registration Place: Leichhardt, New South Wales
Registration number: 5117

TWO members have him in GR trees

Thank you to everyone who has responded. My apologies for not including a date in the original request. My initial thought was that AH Simms was English as he was serving on a British Naval ship.

There is a tree on Ancestry he had a few siblings

Arthur H Simms
1889 – 1908
Walter Scott Simms
1891 –
Margaret Simms Died Infant
1893 –
Lachlan H Simms
1895 –
Margaret C Simms
1899 – 1966