{"id":5412,"date":"2020-09-09T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5412"},"modified":"2021-05-04T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T09:24:50","slug":"kirk-sidney","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/kirk-sidney\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk, Sidney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Sidney Kirk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Sergeant, 18 Squadron<br>Service number 1029512<br>Died 30 Mar 1943<br>Buried Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia<br>Age 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;REMEMBERED ALWAYS. A LOYAL AND DEVOTED SON TO HIS HOME, COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY&#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 1920 in Chorlton, Lancashire to Lewis Cornofsky and Esther nee Raff and was the eldest of three siblings, Vera and Beina. Their father Lewis changed his name from Cornofsky to Kirk and ran a boot and shoe factory in Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidney was the observer on Blenheim EH318 which departed RAF Oulmene, Algeria to attack communications and transport in the area west of Sousse. The aircraft crashed on takeoff killing Sidney and the other two crew members: <br>Canadian Pilot, James Anderson Mayne, R\/86852<br>New Zealand W\/Op, Leslie John O&#8217;Neill, 411095<\/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-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-1-700x980.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-1-700x980.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-1-250x350.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-1-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-1-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-1-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-1-120x168.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-1-scaled.jpg 1829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Photo provided by The War Graves Photographic Project \u00a92021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Sidney-Kirk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Sidney-Kirk.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Sidney-Kirk-250x169.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Sidney-Kirk-120x81.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption>Jewish Chronicle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-2-700x526.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-2-700x526.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-2-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-2-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-2-1536x1154.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-2-2048x1539.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Kirk-2-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia<br>Photo provided by The War Graves Photographic Project \u00a92021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Kirk Sergeant, 18 SquadronService number 1029512Died 30 Mar 1943Buried Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery, TunisiaAge 22 Headstone Inscription&#8216;REMEMBERED ALWAYS. 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