In Memory Of

BALDACHIN, SYDNEY DOUGLAS

Service Details
Age:
 20
Date of Birth:
 1921-06-29
Service No:
 778405
Rank:
 Sergeant
Unit:
 25 O.T.U.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1941-08-16
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Hampden X2959 took off from RAF Balderton for night circuits and landing training exercise. The aircraft was slighly off course and while trying to find the airfield at 0025 hours hit some tress and then plunged down into houses in London Road, New Balderton. Shortly after impact the aircraft burst into flames with three houses being totally destroyed. Two of the crew were killed and the third was slighly injured.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Grave 162.
Cemetery:
 DONCASTER (ROSE HILL) JEWISH CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Yorkshire
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Rudolph and Florence Baldachin, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. On Bulawayo Milton High School Roll of Honour. Commemoration stone in Bulawayo Jewish Cemetery. ***Jewish