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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 932

A Second World War Casualty Group of Three to Sergeant Stirling Bomber Observer A.G.P. Sindrey, 218 Squadron Royal Air Force, Shot Down and Killed by a Night Fighter Over Denmark, 29.4.1943 1939-1945 Star; Air Crew Europe Star; War Medal, extremely fine, in original card box of issue addressed to ´W.P. Sindrey, Esq., 11 Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham, Glos.´, with named condolence slip (3) Estimate £ 220-250 Sergeant Arthur George Percival Sindrey; educated at Cheltenham Grammar School; enlisted Royal Air Force, January 1941 and after a period of training in the U.S.A. was posted to Bomber Command; was serving with 218 Squadron, Downham Market (Stirling´s) in 1943, and during February-April of that year flew in several operational sorties over heavily defended German targets including: Berlin (2); Hamburg; Stuttgart and Mannheim; on 29.4.1943 when taking part in a ´Gardening´ operation on Wilhelmshaven his Sterling Bomber (EF356, piloted by Sgt. K.S. Hailey), ´T/o 2105 Downham Market. Shot down by a night fighter and crashed 0035 at Oddum, roughly midway twixt Esbjerg´ (Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, refers), all members of the crew were killed, except one who was taken P.O.W. and later died in captivity; Sindrey is buried in Gravelund Cemetery Esbjerg, Denmark. 22 Aircraft were lost that night, the heaviest loss whilst minelaying during the War.

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