{"id":385,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=385"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:16:57","slug":"ford-sidney-lazarus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/ford-sidney-lazarus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford, Sidney Lazarus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Sidney Lazarus Ford<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Wireless Operator\/Air Gunner, 12 Squadron<br>Service number 1330672<br>Died 11 June 1943<br>Buried Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany<br>Age 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS DEAR PARENTS, BROTHERS, SISTER AND ALL WHO KNEW HIM&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\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 in 1921 in Hackney to Charles Fritz and Russian born Bessie n\u00e9e Stavisky. Charles served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in WW1 and was listed as a millinery manufacturer. The family surname was changed from Fritz to Ford. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidney was the youngest of four children, Sadie, John and Leonard and their mother Bessie died when she was only twenty eight in 1922. Sidney was engaged to Valerie Gee and after his death she married his older brother John. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidney was the wireless operator\/air gunner in Lancaster ED522 which departed from RAF Wickenby on a night operation to Dusseldorf. The aircraft crashed in Dusseldorf killing all the crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pilot Sgt Robert Highet<br>Nav, Sgt William Andrew Gillanders<br>Sgt Sidney Lazarus Ford<br>A\/B Sgt Kenneth John Tagg<br>F\/E Sgt John Edgar Constable<br>A\/G Sgt Leslie Robert Evans<br>Sgt Alan William Lee <\/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\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FORD-Sidney-Lazarus-700x1141.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FORD-Sidney-Lazarus-700x1141.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FORD-Sidney-Lazarus-250x408.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FORD-Sidney-Lazarus-768x1252.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/FORD-Sidney-Lazarus-120x196.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/56034313_06b730fc-29c0-45cc-b006-87674cf497ef.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7858\" width=\"365\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/56034313_06b730fc-29c0-45cc-b006-87674cf497ef.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/56034313_06b730fc-29c0-45cc-b006-87674cf497ef-120x217.jpeg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/S-L-Ford.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/S-L-Ford.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/S-L-Ford-120x165.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Lazarus Ford Wireless Operator\/Air Gunner, 12 SquadronService number 1330672Died 11 June 1943Buried Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, GermanyAge 22 Headstone Inscription&#8216;DEEPLY MOURNED BY HIS DEAR PARENTS, BROTHERS, SISTER AND ALL WHO KNEW HIM&#8217; Sidney was born in 1921 in Hackney to Charles Fritz and Russian born Bessie n\u00e9e Stavisky. 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