{"id":295,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=295"},"modified":"2021-01-24T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T09:24:32","slug":"brown-sidney","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/brown-sidney\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown, Sidney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Air Bomber, 102 (Ceylon) Squadron
Service number 1322948
Died 14 May 1943
Buried Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany
Age unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A\/G, John Sidney Wilson Fowles, 1576327.
Pilot, Vincent Herbert Hatchard, 1392608.
F\/E, William Tressillian Lee, 577037.
W\/Op, John Leedham, 1291992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J A Coughlin, R\/155989, POW Stalag Luft L6.
Frederick Alan James, 127975, POW Stalag Luft L3. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n