Sidney’s family details are unknown to date. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission have advised that a letter was sent to Brighton after the war but did not receive a response.

Sidney was the air bomber on Halifax JB964 which departed from RAF Pocklington on a night operation to Bochum. The aircraft was shot down from 15000 feet by a night-fighter operating W of Cologne killing five of the crew. The two other crew became prisoners of war.

A/G, John Sidney Wilson Fowles, 1576327.
Pilot, Vincent Herbert Hatchard, 1392608.
F/E, William Tressillian Lee, 577037.
W/Op, John Leedham, 1291992.

J A Coughlin, R/155989, POW Stalag Luft L6.
Frederick Alan James, 127975, POW Stalag Luft L3.