Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameSydney Norman SYMONDSON, 2C1R
Birth1922
Death19 Jul 1941, Killem, France
BurialDunkirk Town Cemetery, France
FatherHenry Norman SYMONDSON (1890-1961)
MotherDora Gwendoline READ (1893-1975)
Notes for Sydney Norman SYMONDSON
In the January to March 1922 birth index, Sydney N. Symondson, mother’s maiden name Read, Hampstead district, Greater London, volume 1a, page 943
Regimental Number 1160231
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Medals
DescriptionThree: Sergeant S. N. Symondson, No. 15 (Oxford’s Own) Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, together with named transmission slip and card box of issue addressed to father at Harrow, Middlesex, nearly extremely fine (3) £120-150
The War Graves Photographic Project indicates he was with 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died July 19, 1941.
Footnote
Sidney Norman Symondson was killed in action whilst on a bombing operation to Lille on 19 July 1941 in a Stirling, when his plane was hit by flak while trying to bomb a secondary target at Dunkerque. The port inner engine caught fire and shortly afterwards the bomber dived vertically into the ground at Killem, 2 km. S.W. of Hondschoote, France. Six members of the crew, including Symondson were killed and two others taken prisoner of war. Sergeant Symondson is buried in Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France.
Accrding to the book Laughter in the Air by Georgina Morgan (nee Symondson) Norman was killed in his first mission over Germany.
www.findagrave.com
Sergeant Sidney Norman Symondson
Birth unknown
Death July 19, 1941
Note Sergeant (W. Op./Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age unknown
Burial Dunkirk Town Cemetery, Dunkirk (Dunquerque), Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region, France
Plot 2 Row 2 Coll. grave 4-5
International Bomber Command Centre web site
https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/227443/
UK WWII Allied Airmen Roll of Honour
Name: Sidney Norman Symondson
Rank: Sergeant
Death Date: 19 Jul 1941
Military Base: Wyton, Hunts [Near Huntingdon and St. Ives in Cambridgeshire]
Service Number: 1160231
Unit: 15 Squadron
Command: Bomber Command
Ship: Stirling I
Occupation: Wop/Ag [Weapons Operator/Air Gunner}
Casualty: Killed in action
Burial Place: Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France
Notes: Shot Down By Flak At Killem Near Hondschoote During A Raid on A Secondary Target At Dunkirk (Primary Was Lille)
[15 Squadron flew the Stirling from April 1941 to December 1943.]
Regimental Number 1160231
From Dnw.co.uk
Medals
DescriptionThree: Sergeant S. N. Symondson, No. 15 (Oxford’s Own) Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, together with named transmission slip and card box of issue addressed to father at Harrow, Middlesex, nearly extremely fine (3) £120-150
The War Graves Photographic Project indicates he was with 15 Squadron, Royal Air Force, died July 19, 1941.
Footnote
Sidney Norman Symondson was killed in action whilst on a bombing operation to Lille on 19 July 1941 in a Stirling, when his plane was hit by flak while trying to bomb a secondary target at Dunkerque. The port inner engine caught fire and shortly afterwards the bomber dived vertically into the ground at Killem, 2 km. S.W. of Hondschoote, France. Six members of the crew, including Symondson were killed and two others taken prisoner of war. Sergeant Symondson is buried in Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France.
Accrding to the book Laughter in the Air by Georgina Morgan (nee Symondson) Norman was killed in his first mission over Germany.
www.findagrave.com
Sergeant Sidney Norman Symondson
Birth unknown
Death July 19, 1941
Note Sergeant (W. Op./Air Gnr.) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Age unknown
Burial Dunkirk Town Cemetery, Dunkirk (Dunquerque), Nord-Pas-de-Calais Region, France
Plot 2 Row 2 Coll. grave 4-5
International Bomber Command Centre web site
https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/227443/
UK WWII Allied Airmen Roll of Honour
Name: Sidney Norman Symondson
Rank: Sergeant
Death Date: 19 Jul 1941
Military Base: Wyton, Hunts [Near Huntingdon and St. Ives in Cambridgeshire]
Service Number: 1160231
Unit: 15 Squadron
Command: Bomber Command
Ship: Stirling I
Occupation: Wop/Ag [Weapons Operator/Air Gunner}
Casualty: Killed in action
Burial Place: Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France
Notes: Shot Down By Flak At Killem Near Hondschoote During A Raid on A Secondary Target At Dunkirk (Primary Was Lille)
[15 Squadron flew the Stirling from April 1941 to December 1943.]