Service Details
Name:
BALDACHIN
Given Name:
SYDNEY DOUGLAS
Initials:
S D
Service No:
778405
Trade:
Pilot
Rank:
Sergeant
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Regiment:
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
25 O.T.U.
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Date of Death:
1941-08-16
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Date of Birth:
1921-06-29
Age:
20
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.
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
Commemoration
Country:
United Kingdom
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Locality:
Yorkshire
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Cemetery:
DONCASTER (ROSE HILL) JEWISH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
Grave 162.

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