{"id":16794,"date":"2022-01-28T08:24:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T08:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=16794"},"modified":"2023-06-05T06:12:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T06:12:19","slug":"black-sydney-norman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/navy\/black-sydney-norman\/","title":{"rendered":"Black, Sydney Norman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"name\">Sydney Norman Black<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Signalman, H.M.S. Odyssey, O\/P on S.S. Fort Pelly <br>Service number D\/JX 173752 <br>Died 20 Jul 1943 <br>Commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial<br>Age 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-2-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Sidney was born on 3 September 1919 in Brixton, London to Romania born father Hyman, a fancy goods shopkeeper who served in the Rifle Brigade in WW1, and Anne nee Shafron. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidney enlisted into the Navy at the outbreak of war and served for a year on the ship H.M.S. Bonaventure. He was rescued when the ship was torpedoed by the Italians. At about 02:55 on the morning of 31 March 1941, Bonaventure\u00a0was hit amidships on the starboard side by two torpedoes fired by the Italian submarine Ambra south of Crete with the loss of 138 of her 480 crew. 310 survivors were rescued by\u00a0Hereward\u00a0and the Australian destroyer Stuart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years later, Sidney was based at HMS Odyssey, a land base at the Collingwood Hotel in Ilfracombe. The hotel was taken over by the Royal Navy in 1943 and handed back to civilian life in 1946. Sidney was listed as a passenger on the S.S. Fort Pelly, an ammunition ship, in 1943. On July 20th, 1943, Fort Pelly was bombed in an air attack at Augusta, Sicily. Her ammunition cargo exploded and 40 men were killed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jewish-Chronicle-1942-12-04-002-cut.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jewish-Chronicle-1942-12-04-002-cut.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jewish-Chronicle-1942-12-04-002-cut-250x91.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jewish-Chronicle-1942-12-04-002-cut-120x44.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Norman Black Signalman, H.M.S. 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